Like the Australian flag, it features the Southern Cross, but with five-pointed stars instead of seven. Curiously, the design ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one ...

With over 5m members, all male, the RSS is the biggest volunteer group in the world. It does charity work and teaches young ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Yet while the triangular monuments are most synonymous with Egypt, the world’s largest collection of pyramids actually ...

Thugs bussed to a demonstration to assault anti-China activists in California. Relatives held hostage to force an individual ...

The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group is looking to restore life in Syria to pre-civil war times. The rebel group, which orchestrated the stunning downfall of President Bashar al-Assad, is continuing to push ...

People in Syria are looking for their relatives and friends in prisons, hospitals and morgues. The U.N. estimates over 100,00 ...

For a sweeter option, the go-to is a Kouign-amann, the thick buttery pastry emblematic of the region, a slice of the ...

France raised its flag at its Damascus embassy on Tuesday for the first time in 12 years and European Union officials ...

CALIPATRIA, Calif. — The little desert town of Calipatria, known for its state prison, is a humble place. It struggles with ...

Syria's new rulers stepped up engagement on Tuesday with countries that deemed ousted president Bashar al-Assad a pariah, ...