AS REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were ...

AS REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were ...

A woman dies from pregnancy related complications in Afghanistan every two hours due to a lack of access to health care and ...

It is the only one in the geographic space in which it is located that has kept religion out of governance. That was not supposed to happen since it was religion that led to the founding of the state ...

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Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

MY passion in nation-building started in my time as part of the peace talks in the Philippines involving three groups of ...

Syrian troops exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers and armed groups in northeast Lebanon overnight and into Monday in a new ...

The leader of Daesh in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister said on Friday, describing him as “one of the ...

Western media reports have revealed that representatives of the Azawad rebels (Malian Tuaregs) and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin held a meeting in March ...

Tensions have been high between Iran and Turkey since coup in Syria which resulted in the toppling of Tehran-backed Syrian ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.