A car bombing on Wednesday in Damascus has injured five in a rare attack in the Syrian capital. Meanwhile, in the southern province of Daraa, violence attacks by unidentified gunmen are becoming more frequent in a region wracked with instability.
As violence has engulfed the Sudanese capital Khartoum alongside its neighbouring cities Khartoum Bahri and Omdurman, Sudanese expatriate workers in Qatar feel helpless as they watch from afar, even as they scramble to get their families to safety.
Joyful family reunions will happen across northeast Syria this Eid as relations who have been estranged from each other for years are able to get together as northeast Syria has been allowing Syrian refugees with European residency to enter.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim worshippers from across historic Palestine gathered to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan and of the Islamic year.
This Ramadan, Damascenes are constricted in the dishes they can prepare by the rampant inflation and price hikes which have hit the whole country. Traditional Ramadan dishes like Shakriya and Shishbarak have been ditched as the cost of meat soars.
An extremist Israeli group associated with the Temple Mount Movement called for followers to carry out animal sacrifices at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound next week.
In Iraq, the season for truffles runs from mid-January to mid-April and the country is currently experiencing a bumper crop, leading Iraqis to travel in their droves to the hills and valleys to dig for the tasty and nutritious edible fungi.
The Democratic Forces of Change, alongside independent MPs, are opposing the Iraqi parliament's efforts to rush through a change to electoral laws which many believe are intended to further strengthen the dominant political forces of the country.
Despite many Tunisian governmental pledges to tackle gender disparities in the workplace and elsewhere, women are still being forced to work longer hours than men, and for less pay.
