The 2025 Syrian parliamentary elections, which took place on October 5, 2025, occasioned a monumental, yet cautious, step in ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

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Veteran photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie has spent over two decades documenting conflict zones around the world, from Syria ...

Home Affairs has confirmed it processed "citizenship by descent" applications for two children who fled Syria last month ...

Gaza ceasefire talks are under way in Egypt, with delegations from the US, Israel and Hamas in indirect negotiations. A key ...

After a decade and a half of brutal conflict, the Syrian Civil War ended with Bashar al-Assad’s ouster at the hands of a rebel faction. What began in 2011 as peaceful protests during the Arab Spring ...

(RNS) — Millennia of Jewish life in Syria came to a close in the 1990s. Today, only around half a dozen elderly Jews are believed to remain. (RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new ...

U.S. Central Command is stepping in to help reduce the population of large detention camps in northeast Syria that officials say have become incubators for ISIS radicalization. Speaking to delegates ...