US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the strategic castle of Jaabar on the Euphrates River from the Islamic State. VOA’s Mahmoud Bali reports
US-backed Kurdish Forces Capture Historic Castle From IS Near Raqqa
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Young Afghan Woman ‘Buries Herself’ Amid Discrimination
Young 19-year-old Fahima Mohammadi has organized “her own funeral” and invited close friends to say goodbye last time. Kashmiri Shiite Muslim women participate in a Muharram procession in Srinagar, India © AP Photo/ Mukhtar Khan Talaq Talaq Talaq: Emergence of Islamic Feminism in India The […]
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The Eternal Magic of Beirut
THE DAY I ARRIVED in Beirut I was collected at my hotel by Huda Baroudi, a cheerful woman who had offered to show me around. It was a lazy Sunday, grim and gray, and I was jet-lagged. But her eyes were shining and she was […]
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Brazil casts aside crisis in rousing Rio Games opening
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk. […]