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Relying on word-of-mouth publicity in a country where exercising in public is culturally deemed unbecoming for women, Halah Alhamrani is working to empower a generation with little to no exposure to sports. (Photo: AFP)

Abayas left in locker: Saudi women find empowerment in right to...

Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 reform plan, the government is seeking to jump-start women's...

18 March 2018 1:23 PM IST

International attention has been focused in recent weeks mainly on the plight of civilians in eastern Ghouta, where the United Nations believes 400,000 people have been trapped under punishing bombardment, deprived of food and medicine. (Photo: Representational/ AFP)

Deadliest assault ever: Sick, injured survivors of state massacre...

Women carrying infants, men hobbling on crutches and an old man in a wheelchair waited at a school nearby.

14 March 2018 4:06 PM IST

At least 20 civilians -- including four children -- were killed in Douma on Saturday, in addition to 17 civilians in other battlefront towns, said the Observatory. (Photo: Representational/ AFP)

So many scared faces: Ghouta sirens distress call, death toll rises to...

Shelling and air strikes slammed into Douma on Saturday, trapping residents inside their basements for hours.

11 March 2018 12:31 PM IST

According to officials dealing with genocide and religious leaders, she said, 3,154 Yazidis are missing including 1,471 women and girls and 1,200 Turkmen are missing including 600 women and 250 children. (Photo: Representational/ AP)

Were like living corpses: UN envoy retells stories of IS rape victims

Despite all humanitarian efforts there is a gross lack of both physical and mental health, psycho-social support.'

10 March 2018 11:44 AM IST

Government troops have advanced rapidly across farmland in Eastern Ghouta in the past week and had wrested control of 40 percent of the enclave as of early Tuesday. (Photo: AP)

Homes to rubbles: Air strikes in eastern Ghouta increase death toll to...

More than 340,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011.

7 March 2018 1:18 PM IST

Mervat Bukhari, a force of nature draped head-to-toe in Isla-mic niqab, braved insults to become the first Saudi woman to work at a gas station, something uni-maginable not long ago.

Bumpy road to empowerment for Saudi women

Over 1 million women seek to enter workforce as men resist reform plan

7 March 2018 1:14 AM IST

More than 1,300 women and children surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga in August after government forces expelled the jihadist group from the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar. (Representational Image)

Death by hanging: Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women for ties with...

Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children.

26 Feb 2018 3:37 PM IST

After the council vote Saturday, Syrian warplanes backed by Russian air power launched new raids on a town in Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo: AFP)

Hell on Earth: 500 deaths later, UN calls for ceasefire amid E Ghouta...

A young woman amputated from the knee breastfed a 40-day-old infant who had lost his entire family in the bombings.

25 Feb 2018 2:27 PM IST

Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses foreign ambassadors at a Ramadan dinner in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan has voiced support for Qatar in its dispute with Saudi Arabia and other nations, saying no one will benefit from the policy of isolating the oil-rich nation. (Photo: AP)

Turkey will lay siege to Syria's Afrin: Tayyip Erdogan

While some analysts say Turkey and pro-Ankara Syrian rebels have made slow advances.

21 Feb 2018 1:31 AM IST

Under Saudi Arabias guardianship system, women are required to present proof of permission from a male guardian - normally the husband, father or brother - to do any government paperwork, travel or enrol in classes. (Representational Image)

Guided without guardians: Saudi women can now own biz without male...

The policy change, announced by the Saudi government on Thursday, also marks a major step away from the strict...

18 Feb 2018 6:49 PM IST

Benjamin Netanyahu brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal which he called a piece of that Iranian drone, or whats left of it, after we shot it down. (Photo: File)

Do not test Israel's resolve: Netanyahu warns Iran's smooth-talking'...

During the strikes, one of Israels F-16 fighter jets was shot down, believed to be the first loss of an Israeli plane in...

18 Feb 2018 5:54 PM IST

A flight instructor, her student and a third person died after two small airplanes collided in midair at a rural airport in western Georgia, where one witness told authorities the pilots may have been trying to land at the same time.

Plane with passengers aboard crashes in central Iran, all 66 feared...

The report identified the plane as an ATR-72. It said the plane was flying from Tehran to the southern Iranian city of...

18 Feb 2018 1:35 PM IST