Topic: Middle East
PHOENIX (Reuters) - The alma mater of football star turned soldier Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan while serving with the U.S. Army, honored him on Tuesday with a veterans' center in his name.Arizona State University's Pat Tillman Veterans Center provides ...
Blessing Okpara normally looks after 11 children in her cramped two-bedroom Tel Aviv apartment, but even with just five toddlers charging around the place looks fit to burst.In this small, worn home Okpara runs a "pirate" nursery, one of dozens in Tel ...
Fears of a withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan in 2014 are harming efforts to transfer security to locals, the head of the EU police training force EUPOL said on Wednesday."If you talk to a normal Afghan person, even an educated one, ...
JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi teenager Abdulrahman Saeed lives in one of the richest countries in the world, but his prospects are poor, he blames his education, and it's not a situation that looks like changing soon."There is not enough in our curriculum," ...
JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi teenager Abdulrahman Saeed lives in one of the richest countries in the world, but his prospects are poor, he blames his education, and it's not a situation that looks like changing soon."There is not enough in our curriculum," ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Abdul Wahab swings a heavy sledgehammer down onto a red hot piece of metal to mold it into a truck part, sweat dripping down a face marked with grime and soot from the fire, and with a focus ...
NYU professor gets 3rd eye: Camera implanted in back of head will feed images to Qatar exhibitA New York University arts professor might not have eyes on the back of his head, but he's coming pretty close.Wafaa Bilal, a visual artist widely ...
Reading is the most important lesson for Afghan police and soldiers as NATO builds forcesWhen NATO troops train Afghan police, their most intensive class is not marksmanship, checkpoint procedure or riot control. It's reading and writing.Only 11 percent of enlisted personnel and ...
General education in Kuwait is compulsory for native Kuwaitis between the ages of 6 and 14. In 2001 the university began segregating by gender, a move that was called for by the National Assembly. Several thousand students attend colleges and universities overseas, ...
The post of governor of Damascus is an important one with national implications. Political activity is national, not municipal, as Syria is a centralized state with one party dominating public affairs. The outlying portions of al-Ghutah and a vast surrounding district constitute ...