As the death toll tops 17,000 in Turkey and Syria from Monday’s twin earthquakes, we look at the situation in Syria, where 12 years of brutal war have left the country’s institutions in tatters, ...

JEDDAH, 24 December 2007 -- The six-year-long saga of Saudi businessman Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadi, who was accused by US authorities of funding terrorism, has ended with the Swiss federal prosecutor ...

At the core of Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji’s Iraq-Palestine-Saudi Arabia-UK-Egypt co-production, ,Hanging Gardens', is this unusual bond between a child and a mannequin. One of the seven wonders of the ...

JERUSALEM, March 22 (JTA) — As a journalist, I met Sheik Ahmed Yassin twice during my visits to the Gaza Strip. The first time was when I attended a military court hearing in 1984, when Yassin was ...

Iraqi writer-director Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji, whose film Hanging Gardens won the top prize at the Red Sea International Film Festival this week, drew upon his own experiences when writing the script ...

Yassin Al Daradji Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji picked up the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film and the Yusr Award for ...

KUWAIT CITY, March 22 Under the patronage of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawwaf Al-Sabah, Kuwait Finance House (KFH) will inaugurate on March 24th the banking hall named after the late Ahmed ...

Senior al Qaeda operative Yasin al Suri — who is suspected of moving money and operatives into Syria since 2011 — is now running operations from Iran with the tacit blessing of the government, ...

WASHINGTON --A U.S. counterterrorism airstrike earlier this month in Afghanistan killed an al-Qaida leader responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and the 2009 attack on a bus ...

Cineuropa: The setting for your film feels post-apocalyptic at times. This world is so barren, like in Mad Max. Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji: I think you’re the first one who’s mentioned it. I really ...