If you like learning English from the news, click here. Japan changes the law to stop parents giving their children names ...

As Orbán is rejected, there is cautious optimism new leader can restore ties – but issues such as EU accession loom large ...

Syrian Kurds ran their own autonomous region for 12 years after breaking away from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Loss of closest European ally will force Kremlin to consider whether non-autocratic states can ever be reliable partners ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Trump’s disastrous reign The events in the Middle East and Ukraine are horrific. The reign of Donald Trump is a disaster. The one thing ...

Vladimir Putin has spent years building a coalition of the discontented on the premise that authoritarian states can outlast ...

Here is a look at the civil war in Syria. Facts Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria as president from July 2000-December 2024. His father, Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria from 1970-2000. Roughly 4 million Syrians ...

Ukraine's Zelenskyy arrived in Damascus in a surprise visit on Sunday, for his first official visit to Syria after the fall of the pro-Russian al-Assad regime.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks in Damascus on Sunday with Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, as Kyiv pushes to deepen security ties across the Middle East amid its ongoing war ...

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The cousin, Antoine Kassis, was found guilty of conspiracy to support a terrorist group, after trying to sell weapons from the fallen regime to a Colombian militia. By Ephrat Livni A drug-running ...

A drug-running cousin of former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was convicted last week in a federal court in Virginia of plotting to trade military-grade weapons for a shipping container's worth of ...