The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen who had been detained in Afghanistan for more than two years, following talks between U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Taliban officials in Kabul, ...

For decades, Qatar has used ties with Islamist movements as soft power to boost its regional and global influence.

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

On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a joyful evening of music – a concert held with the approval of Syria’s ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

In 2024, the Taliban's morality ministry reported destroying 21,328 musical instruments over the previous year. But in Syria, following a brief interlude after the fall of Assad, cultural life in ...

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 ...

Pakistan has been ranked the second-most terrorism-affected country in the Global Terrorism Index 2025, with attacks doubling to 1,099 in 2024.

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