On August 28, Syrian Kurdish security forces backed by the United States launched an operation targeting ISIS sleeper cells in the Al-Hol camp, in northeast Syria. The mission was intended to stabilize the detention facility, which holds thousands of internally displaced people and families of suspected ISIS members. But more than a month after the raids began – and despite hundreds of arrests – ISIS remains entrenched in Al-Hol. Violence in the camp has reached record levels, and at least 44 people have been killed this
There were many great stories out of the Rugby World Cup, which brought the sport’s global elite together in France and wrapped with South Africa nabbing the prestigious William Webb-Ellis trophy. One was Portugal — not a traditional rugby nation — making their debut at the tournament and recording an emotional first victory over Fiji. The UAE is at an even more embryonic stage than Portugal in its rugby evolution but, for the past decade, former professional Apollo Perelini has been working to create a rugby infrastructure
Al Qasimi is one leader among the trail of Emirati women artists behind and beside her, whose practice has flourished with time and the instrumental polish of major international training and recognition.
Recently, dozens of wildfires have erupted across southern and western Turkey as a dangerous heat wave lingers over southeastern Europe. For the past week, villages and resorts along the Mediterranean and Aegean coastlines have been overtaken by
Livehealthy editor Ann Marie McQueen talks to Dr Nasr Al Jafari about what people struggling with long-Covid can do to get back to health, advice that is pretty good for the rest of us too.
In 2013, David Remnick published a profile of Naftali Bennett. Remnick wrote that Bennett was something new in Israeli politics, a man who would “build a sturdy electoral bridge between the religious and the secular, the hilltop outposts of the