Draft ideas will be discussed at a meeting in Riyadh this month. Proposals may involve a Gulf-led reconstruction fund and a ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

But look beyond appearances, and Lebanon has changed. Hizbullah’s Shia heartlands in south Beirut and Lebanon’s southern ...

Nevertheless, in the past decade, Erdogan has launched several military campaigns, all of them focused on countering Kurdish rebels – who are always called terrorists – and not necessarily ...

The Houthis have gone through something of a transformation in their reputation since the onset of Israel’s war on Gaza in ...

Trapped civilians fear catastrophe. After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a generation, setting off troubling ...

Allan Hambala presents to Special Assistant to the President Antonio Ernesto Lagdameo Jr. the cache of firearms turned in by 232 New People’s Army guerrillas who have laid down arms in Davao de ...

In Syria's morgues, Dr Sara Melhem is uncovering the identities of corpses from Assad's dictatorship, offering families the ...

An awards season notable for wild momentum swings saw another big shift Saturday night with Sean Baker's "Anora" winning top honors from both the directors and producers ...

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