Nadhira Al Harthy, the first Omani woman to summit Mount Everest, died last week in an avalanche that also claimed the lives of nine other mountaineers. The climbers were attempting to summit Broad Pe...

After a brutal crackdown on protesters earlier this month, the Iranian government has now launched a campaign of arrests across the country. Families say their loved ones are being held incommunicado....

US President Donald Trump has announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after two years of a deadly conflict. Israeli hostages are expected to be released by early next week, and Israel’s army is...

“I hope that one day, even for just one day, I could sleep peacefully, without fear.” That’s a statement from a 19-year-old who has been living through Israel’s war in Gaza for the past 22 months. For...

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

A New Lines editor records her conversations with Palestinians about the challenges of living and writing in the territory

The senior communications director at UNRWA pens her love letter to the late Ziad Rahbani.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a reform of the organ-transplant system and threatened to close a major procurement body, after a probe found premature attempts to start organ retrieval while patients showed signs of life.

After four months of near-total siege by Israel, people in Gaza are starving. According to the United Nations, at least 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating. Death from hunger is risin...

A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and share information about the sources of free food in your neighb...

U.S. embassies and military bases across the Middle East are on high alert, as fears grow about an Israeli strike on Iran.

Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday.

During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most horrific chemical attacks in recent history. One of them was in April 2018, in ...

The layoffs come as public media faces increased scrutiny and funding threats from the federal government.

Despite her success, Mary Margaret McBride did not like the thought that she sounded like other women on the radio. Because everyone thought women on the radio sounded annoying. Today a story of the v...

The visit is the largest US trade mission to Iraq in the more than 100-year history of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.

In Uganda, motorcycles are one of the most popular forms of public transport. In the capital city, Kampala, there are hundreds of thousands of them. Until recently, all of them were driven by men. But...

The final results of Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years show the population has reached 46.1 million.

An International Criminal Court prosecutor has called for arrest warrants for Afghanistan's Taliban leaders over the persecution of women.

In 2021, six women — two pilots and four cabin crew — participated in Afghanistan’s first-ever all-female flight. It was a historic moment. Their photos and videos were shared all over the world. Then...

In 1924 when the world came face-to-face with the likeness of the Ancient Egyptian queen for the first time, it sparked a fascination that endures to this day.

As people have shaped the natural world, so wildlife – from mahoganies to magpies – has had to evolve to survive

Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020.

Greed and self-delusion kept the money flowing, and hid the truth from the public.

The country’s loss of human capital underscores systemic problems

Fighters funded and trained by America and Britain tell The Telegraph they had advance warning regime would be overthrown

Hostilities are taking place in more than 170 locations across the globe and women are suffering the effects more than at any time since the second world war. Here, female photojournalists reveal pers...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups employing Afghan women.