Congress had budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter nations considered the world's ...

Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boundaries, others show different voting blocs in ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

A close ally of Iran's Supreme ... airport in Iraq on January 3rd, 2020. Following the attack, Trump told a press conference that Soleimani was "the number-one terrorist" in the world, who made ...

This is important for Iran because it recently lost Syria as an ally.The IRNA report in Iranian media that highlighted the ...

As bad as any assassination is, it would be difficult to overstate the massive ramifications for world ... for Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, and on their own soil show how vulnerable ...

after Trump during his first term abandoned a 2015 deal Iran had reached with world powers, under which it curbed enrichment, and restored tough US sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Iran's work ...

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Iraq’s parliament passed into law on Tuesday a revised bill that had sparked outrage over fears it rolled back women’s rights and permitted underage marriage. The parliament said on its ...

Mostafa Davoodi, an official at Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, said in an interview, "The completion of the Shalamcheh-Basra railway project can create a new transportation horizon for the Islamic ...

A rare and deadly winter storm descended across the southern U.S. on Tuesday, leaving some record-setting snow totals and halting travel for millions of Americans in Louisiana, Texas and Florida ...