In just ten days, on 8 December 2024, a surprise military offensive by the armed factions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led ...

René Wildangel takes a look at who exactly are the Islamists that drove Syrian dictator Assad from the country.

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death and torture, an unknown prisoner ...

Slovakia, despite having to increase its withdrawals by four times after the transit was stopped, has more gas reserves than the European average - for about 100 days, Alexey Grivach noted ...

The decree ordered the presidential administration to form an organizing committee and a directorate for holding events as part of the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland ...

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

The Nevada Legislature begins its lawmaking session on Feb. 3, starting a 120-day spirit to get hundreds of bills considered before the Legislature adjourns until 2027.