Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

On Thursday evening, the orchestra performed the full opera for the first time in its history, in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera.

Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Scandinavian nation has ‘sleepwalked' into a crime nightmare where bombings have become commonplace.

Bristol Old Vic’s re-energised Literary Department announced three writers who will be joining Winsome Pinnock as part of the ...

Wrecked by Islamic State and years of war, Palmyra is finally at peace and aiming to rebuild.

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims dressed in black marched on Saturday, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of ...

Iraqi grocery store owner Abu Amjad al-Zubaidi is grappling with asthma, a condition his doctor blames on emissions from a ...

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel ...

A warning has gone out to seafarers in the Persian Gulf over what appear to be attempts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to ...