TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Iran this week on a rare diplomatic mission, hoping to ease tensions between the Islamic Republic and...
TOKYO: Hawaiian “super corals” that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world could be...
TOKYO: For breast cancer survivors, the risk of tumors returning casts a long shadow, with recurrence possible up to two decades after a diagnosis. But new...
TOKYO: A Tokyo court Tuesday unexpectedly granted bail to former auto industry titan Carlos Ghosn, who has spent more than three months in a detention cell....
TOKYO: A breakthrough treatment involving electrical stimulation of the spine has enabled paralyzed patients to walk again, apparently reactivating nerve...
TOKYO: A team of researchers has produced viable offspring from same-sex pairs of mice, using a novel technology that involves stem cells altered to remove...
TOKYO: Japan’s execution of a doomsday cult leader and his disciples over a 1995 sarin gas attack may draw a line under the horrific saga, but hundreds of...
TOKYO: At an office in Tokyo, a group of asylum-seekers clutching resumes listened to three Japanese companies describe their openings – rare opportunities in...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: From the street below, it’s easy to miss the workers daubing paint on the rooftops in this north Lebanese city. The labor is part of...
BEIRUT: Dida Guigan was just 2 weeks old when she was whisked out of war-torn Beirut by her new parents, one of thousands of children adopted internationally...
QARAQOSH, Iraq: In the Iraqi Christian town of Qaraqosh, time stands still. Daesh (ISIS) was expelled in October 2016, but life has not returned to its...
MOSUL, Iraq: The Daesh (ISIS) media center was hidden in plain sight in an upscale part of a west Mosul neighborhood now recaptured by Iraqi forces. Inside a...
TALUL AL-ATSHANA, Iraq: Much of the fighting for west Mosul will be at close quarters, but Iraq’s battle against Daesh (ISIS) is also being waged in the...
MOSUL ARIPORT, Iraq: There was still morning mist in the air when Iraq’s Rapid Response units began their push to take Mosul airport from Daesh (ISIS)...
MUKHTARA, Lebanon: From a distance, there’s little to suggest that the building at the entrance of the Druze heartland village of Mukhtara in...
BEIRUT: Despite major setbacks including the loss of access to the Syria-Turkey border and the assassination of several top leaders, Daesh (ISIS) remains a...
BEIRUT: The U.S. and Turkey are forging an alliance of convenience to deal with the Syrian crisis, cooperating to create a zone free of militants despite...
BEIRUT: A year after its establishment, the self-declared “caliphate” of ISIS in Syria and Iraq remains well funded and heavily armed, and experts say it...
BEIRUT: Hackers targeted Syrian opposition members with online “honey traps,” posing as female supporters to steal battle plans and the identity of defectors,...
BEIRUT: Jubilant residents began trickling back to Kobani Tuesday after Kurdish fighters drove ISIS from the Syrian border town, which became a major symbol...
BEIRUT: The deadly attack on France’s Charlie Hebdo newspaper has confirmed the West’s worst fears that militants will act on jihadi threats to target Western...
BEIRUT: Aid workers fear a major humanitarian crisis for millions of Syrian refugees in the Middle East after funding gaps forced the United Nations to cut...
BEIRUT: Syria’s once-promising economy has been set back more than 30 years by its brutal civil war, economists say, and it may never recover.Squeezed by...
BEIRUT: President Barack Obama has ordered a review of U.S. policy on Americans abducted overseas, as intelligence agencies investigate the role of Western...
BEIRUT:- US President Barack Obama has ordered a review of how Washington can release American hostages, as intelligence agencies investigated the involvement...