Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

These remarkable sites serve as living memory-keepers of the Afro-origin men and women who once arrived in the Indian ...

In 2022, governments and/or social actors harassed religious groups in 192 countries and territories out of the 198 analyzed ...

The Expedition 72 crew advanced its life science research and prepared for upcoming spacewalks on Tuesday, as a U.S. resupply ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has left Iran and Russia on the outside, while Iran is accelerating its pursuit of a ...

In 2022, global median scores on the Center’s Government Restrictions and Social Hostilities Indexes mirrored 2021. But some ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

In the short period following Assad’s abrupt fall, rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, ...

In our news wrap Tuesday, prosecutors in New York charged the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO with murder as ...

Its naval base in Tartous on the Mediterranean has been a staging post to fly military contractors in and out of Africa. For ...

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