It was a March afternoon near the end of Ramadan when Mina and her sister left their home to buy groceries for iftar from a nearby shop on the Syrian coast. They never made it to the store. What ...

A new IRC policy paper highlights how underfunding and lack of power-sharing are undermining the work of women’s organizations responding to gender-based violence (GBV) in Yemen. With over 6.2 million ...

The Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre is debuting the new play, "Iraq, But Funny," which follows five generations of Assyrian women — narrated by a British guy. Writer and performer Atra Asdou ...

The question now is what a shaken Islamic Republic in dire economic straits will do with what Iranian President Masoud ...

Roxana Saberi felt like she was back behind bars in Tehran. As she watched Israel’s bombing of Evin prison, the notorious ...

Thirty-three women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following ...

The season’s most noteworthy new releases include Thomas Pynchon’s latest, autofiction by Patricia Lockwood, and Mona Awad’s ...

Stacy Bannerman suffered domestic violence from a veteran and spent over a decade helping others and pushing the Pentagon and ...

Over the weekend, Trump announced that the U.S. had struck three Iranian nuclear sites, aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. In response, Iran launched missile attacks Monday on U ...

Four in five eligible voters in Iraq have successfully updated their biometric data but the country has seen notable holdouts ...