by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 8, 2017 | Features
Mosul- Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls dating from the Assyrian empire found intact under the ground of Mosul. But as fighting rages to evict ISIS from the main city in northern Iraq,...
by Nazeer Rida | Feb 5, 2017 | Middle East
Birut- Some of Syria’s Christians fear that their existence in the post-war Syria would be threatened, particularly following the latest political and military developments accompanying the crisis. Those Christians expressed their worries after they were ruled out...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 12, 2015 | World
Vatican city, AP—Pope Francis on Sunday honored the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling it “the first genocide of the 20th century” and urging the international community to recognize it as such, a politically explosive declaration...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 28, 2015 | Middle East
Baghdad, Reuters—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants who destroyed priceless antiquities from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have kept some artifacts to sell, Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said on Saturday, vowing to prevent the radical Islamists from...
