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ISTANBUL — Voters issued an unexpected blow to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sunday night’s historic election by pushing his party out of its parliament...
Missing Russian Student, Suspected Of Trying To Join ISIS, Detained While Trying To Cross Into Syria
An undated photograph of Varvara Karaulova, provided by her father. ISTANBUL — A missing 19-year-old Russian student whose father said earlier this week may have been...
ISTANBUL — Twenty years ago, Deva Ozenen didn’t know if she’d ever find a way out of prostitution. The young transgender woman couldn’t find a job, like many me...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
An undated photograph of Varvara Karaulova, provided by her father. ISTANBUL — It’s been a week since Pavel Karaulov has heard from his daughter, Varvara Karaulova,...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s June 7 election will elect 550 members of parliament, but it’s really all about one man who isn’t even on the ballot: President Recep Tayyip...
ISTANBUL — The U.S. military’s admission this week that an airstrike against extremists last year in Syria killed two children is too little and too late for many S...
ISTANBUL — When Dr. Bara Sarraj heard that Islamic State militants had overrun the city of Palmyra and its ancient desert ruins, he began to cry. But he wasn’t cryi...
An ultra-Orthodox man works at Haredi Hi-Tech Forum in Bnei Brak, Israel. BNEI BRAK, Israel — “3,000 years ago, the people of Israel came from Egypt,” Yitzik Crom...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
TEL AVIV — Last week’s viral video showing an Israeli policeman beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier triggered mass protests in Tel Aviv during Sunday’s rush hour...
Sophia Jones is the Middle East correspondent for The WorldPost. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, The West Bank and Gaza. Fo...
Israeli women in Tel Aviv embrace a baby born to an Indian surrogate mother in Nepal. Israel evacuated Israeli citizens and gay parents with their infants on April 27. ...
ISTANBUL — On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish authorities hauled off Daniel Varoujan, a leading Armenian poet of the time, along with over 200 other intellectuals in ...
