In a quiet corner of Baghdad, gardening volunteer Abdul Karim Abbas is using a mosque-yard-turned-tree nursery to fight one of Iraq’s most pressing threats: desertification. Fiona Jones reports.

Families of victims of Hamas' Oct. 7th attack called on Israelis on Sunday (August 10) to join them in a general strike in a week's time to stop the government's plan to expand and deepen its war in G ...