Sophia Jones
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AL AOUR, Egypt — Egypt’s forceful response to the Islamic State’s murder of Egyptian Christians in Libya this past weekend seemed to be a welcome addition to the ...
AL AOUR, Egypt — Death is everywhere in Al Aour. When a video surfaced late Sunday showing Islamic State fighters beheading 21 men in Libya, it seemed no family here ...
The fatal shooting of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday afternoon has prompted uproar around the world, particularly from Muslims in the Mid...
AMMAN, Jordan — Thousands of Jordanians gathered at central Amman’s Grand Husseini Mosque at noon on Friday, praying for peace and denouncing the Islamic State’s ...
AMMAN, Jordan — The Islamic State group’s brutal killing of a young Jordanian pilot has only emboldened the Hashemite Kingdom to expand its fight against the milita...
An escaped Islamic State child soldier in Sanliurfa, Turkey, shows the scar on his neck to a reporter on Jan. 27. He says a bullet grazed his neck during battle. SANLIU...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syrians say there’s little to celebrate even if Kurdish fighters, aided by a barrage of U.S.-led airstrikes, have successfully driven the Islami...
ISTANBUL — Egyptian authorities have blood on their hands, Human Rights Watch said in a damning report published Wednesday that detailed scores of detainees dying and...
BURSA, Turkey — When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store in this northwestern Turkish city last year, he had never played the piano before. Now, t...
ISTANBUL — An estimated 1.5 million Syrian children are now refugees — roughly the population of Manhattan. A new video produced by the U.N.’s Refugee Agency and ...
WASHINGTON — Two of the leading political parties representing the Middle East’s stateless Kurdish population will soon be removed from a U.S. list of potential ter...
ISTANBUL — The United Nations’ refugee agency slammed the international community today for “losing its focus on saving lives” as hundreds of thousands of peopl...
ISTANBUL — Spider-Man smokes hookah, rides the subway and does laundry with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth — at least he does in Egypt, according to photograp...
ISTANBUL — Just over a month after Italy announced it would end its maritime rescue operation for migrants crossing the Mediterranean, migrants are still dying at sea...
ISTANBUL — For millions of Syrians, a simple food voucher distributed by the United Nations’ World Food Program is the only thing ensuring they won’t starve. But ...
