Tucked in a displacement camp alongside rows of olive trees, a partially destroyed bus with blown-out tires and shattered windows has provided Dunia and her four children barely enough shelter to survive the past two months.

The Kurdistan Regional Government called on all political parties to convene and discuss the process of drafting a long-awaited constitution, a statement from the presidency’s media office said Sunday.

Five years ago, Daesh (ISIS) attempted to obliterate Iraq’s Christian population. The militants seized dozens of towns, killed civilians and displaced thousands.

The number of children killed in Syria’s Idlib province in the last month has exceeded the total for 2018, according to the latest report released by Save the Children and its partner Hurras Network.

Silham was 21 years old when Daesh (ISIS) militants sold her into sexual slavery. Raped and beaten, she moved from one Syrian town to the next, sold every seven to 10 days for the equivalent of just a few dollars.

Mahmoud should be filled with a yearning to live and recapture the years he lost fighting in the Syrian civil war, having just finished serving in the military for over a decade.

The same bullying at school that drove Mustapha Ashraf’s best friend to commit suicide would also in later years push him to try and end his life. Instead, refusing to be a victim, Ashraf founded Advice Seekers, an organization that runs anti-bullying programs in schools around Egypt.

The United Nations and the Palestinian Authority Monday appealed for $350 million in humanitarian relief for Palestinians next year, saying they need more in the face of “record-low” funding.

Daesh’s (ISIS) deliberate destruction of farmland in northern Iraq has destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of residents, making it harder for them to return to their homes, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday.

An Italian prosecutor has placed five Egyptian security officials under investigation over the disappearance and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in 2016, Italian officials said Tuesday.

A video released on the social media pages of the British consulate-general in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem commenting on gender-based violence in Palestine has sparked outrage among online users. The content of the video is not what has rendered it controversial, but rather who was behind the message being relayed.

“I always suffered,” Carine Boustani told The Daily Star. “Red flags went off at a very young age.” Boustani suffers from endometriosis, a poorly understood condition that affects one in 10 women in Lebanon.

Forget design, and forget galleries. Forget any sort of preconceived notion of what “design” represents, and you may have a shot at getting through Beirut Design Week. Hidden at an intersection between Pierre Gemayel Highway and Mar Mikhael’s Armenia Street sits a parking lot. On any other day, it’s like any other concrete patch of Beirut.

A group of business-minded women from around the world gathered in Lebanon over the weekend to take part in Lebanon’s first women-only vintage car rally. Rallye des Graces brought 30 women from across the globe to participate in the two-day event, aimed at increasing tourism and establishing strong business connections on local and international levels while driving vintage cars across Lebanon

After achieving a record number of registered candidates in the upcoming elections and continuing to gain a footing in the workplace, for many Lebanese women, a question remains: Where does this progress leave motherhood? This issue was the discussion of the day at the Elle Fiesta event at the Hilton Habtoor Grand Hotel in Beirut Saturday, with a conference, workshops and exhibitions dedicated to the empowerment and education of women.