Carter tried to rid the Earth of Guinea worm, which infects people who drink unclean water tainted with larva.

Taras Chmut, the head of the Come Back Alive foundation, a Ukrainian non-governmental military charity organisation, believes that freezing combat actions in the war with Russia is a very bad scenario ...

Provides an overview of Syria, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country. The new authorities have promised justice for crimes under the Assads, but there are huge challenges ...

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Sarkin has written a manifesto condemning the current state of international law and the failure of the post-World War II and post-Cold War systems of governance to stem the tide of atrocities ...

With the Russia-Ukraine war nearing its fourth year ... more of Ukraine and toppling Zelenskyy in favor of a deferential head of state. Cancian said that in a worst-case scenario, Kyiv's front ...

The Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own population during the Syrian civil war also shows the strength of world reaction in favour of prohibition against their use.

If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat ...

Ukraine has claimed killing a senior Russian general, Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, in an explosion in Moscow. The explosive device was reportedly hidden in an electric scooter and detonated outside an ...

Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...

For the first time, sanctions were also imposed on Chinese companies supplying components for drones and microelectronics for Russia's war effort, alongside Indian, Iranian, Serbian, and United ...