BaghdadIraq's Sabean-Mandaean community will celebrate Dehwa Hanina, or the Little Feast, on Saturday with river baptisms, ...

Nineveh Yazidi employees in government offices across Iraq's Nineveh province will get days off for the Jama festival, one of their faith's oldest celebrations, Governor Abdul Qader al ...

The Middle East and North Africa's 2026 fall film festival season gets underway today with the 9th El Gouna Film Festival. Unfolding in its namesake Egyptian Red Sea resort of El Gouna, the festival ...

A political researcher warned of the dangers of recruiting Syrians for conflicts abroad, stressing that exploiting religion and memories of war deepens divisions and threatens social cohesion and the ...

I love going to the theater, and when I stayed in London for two weeks in August, I loved it enough to watch 'My Neighbour ...

Samhain was real and important in medieval Ireland. Hutton traces the pagan New Year and festival of the dead to scholars ...

INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — A few days after the monsoon rains subside, Inle Lake, nestled among picturesque mountains, becomes ...

A “stampede” during a Hindu religious festival in eastern India has killed at least 17 people and injured 25, officials said. A seven-year-old girl was among the fatalities in Saturday’s disaster in ...

Iran’s armed forces attacked bases belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in Iraq’s Kurdistan region using drones, a media outlet in Tehran reports.

Oct 17 (Reuters) - A crush at a religious festival in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata ‌killed at least 17 people and injured dozens, local media reported on Saturday. Durga Puja, a multi-day annual ...

At least 17 people have been killed and 25 injured in a stampede at a religious festival in the city of Kolkata in eastern India. The injured victims have been taken to different hospitals for ...

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has instructed the Government to raise salaries for primary healthcare workers by up to 40% ...