Tessa Fox

An in­crease in raids by the Lebanese Armed Forces has left Syr­i­an refugees in hid­ing, wor­ried about be­ing forced back.

Over 1,000 Syr­i­ans who died in Turkey have been sent back for bur­ial but those from As­sad-con­trolled ar­eas can’t re­turn.

A week af­ter earth­quakes struck, Turk­ish res­cue crews refuse to give up and find a teenage girl in the rub­ble.

Judge Tarek Bitar has faced in­tense op­po­si­tion from Lebanon’s es­tab­lish­ment since re­sum­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion on Mon­day.

The ru­ins of a sub­merged city on the Tigris Riv­er that emerged this year be­longed to a lit­tle-known em­pire.

Farm based on re­spect­ing the ecosys­tem is shel­tered from the chang­ing mar­ket amid glob­al food in­se­cu­ri­ty.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­duct­ed by an Aus­tralian NGO says boat is large­ly in­tact, but fam­i­lies dis­pute the find­ings.

Thou­sands gath­er in Lebanon’s cap­i­tal to com­mem­o­rate two years since a dead­ly port ex­plo­sion, de­mand­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Le­gal cas­es abroad are giv­ing sur­vivors hope for jus­tice, but they say an in­de­pen­dent UN probe re­mains es­sen­tial.

With over­crowd­ed schools and un­der­paid teach­ers, Iraq has been un­able to re­build Mo­sul’s ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem post-ISIL.