Eminently anonymous British street artist Banksy recently descended on Gaza, tagging some of its few unbroken surfaces with his iconic images. This time, he also created a mock video documentary showing the devastation of his latest urban canvas. It shows the squalid conditions in Gaza six months after the end of the war between Hamas and Israel. You can see the full mockumentary on the artist’s website . Over 2,100 Palestinians were killed during the fighting, mostly civilians and many of them children, while 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians ...

Listen up for the best tip you’ll get today. It’s not about "location, location, location.” The key to success in everything is “ communication, communication, communication .” And here in the modern, multilingual Middle East, where many people in the major cities have a tenuous (or better) command of English, the opportunities for skewed communication go far beyond comic cab conversations. We bring you 17 real-life funnies, most captured by the Al Bawaba news team, and urge you to share your own. Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said, “A rows buy ...

Last week the US and Turkey agreed upon a program to train and equip vetted Free Syrian Army rebel factions to help battle the Daesh threat from the ground. Now the Pentagon is expected to send hundreds of US troops to the Middle East starting this spring, where they’ll host training for some 5,000 rebels in Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. But American lawmakers have expressed doubt about whether wilted FSA groups in northern and eastern Syria will be able to hold onto the US-made weapons they receive, much less ...