Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

Donald Trump has reportedly told world leaders that Iran is ‘about to surrender’ after nearly two weeks of bombardment. The US president reportedly made the claim to world leaders from the G7 ...

A gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Virginia, shooting three people before students subdued him.

Rahi, a Maronite Catholic priest from southern Lebanon, was a symbol of national resistance. During Israel’s wars with Hezbollah, he and his Christian compatriots remained on their land even when ...

Speechmatics today launched its new Arabic–English bilingual model, a single production-ready model that handles Arabic dialects and English simultaneously. It can be deployed on-premises and ...

Key U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf have stepped up their criticism of Iran after facing a barrage of missiles and drone ...

In the lobby of a vocational school packed with hundreds of people, Zeinab Moqdad, who fled Beirut's southern suburbs, rages at a new war between Hezbollah and Israel whose consequences ...

The four US Army reserve soldiers were killed in a drone strike in Kuwait on Sunday, one day after the US and Israel began ...

Saudi Arabia’s new National Policy for strengthens the Arabic language / image: file Saudi Arabia has officially launched a historic "National Policy for the Arabic Language," marking a major shift in ...

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...