China's top general has been removed and placed under investigation for misconduct in Chinese President Xi Jinping's latest purge of leading military commanders. Gen. Zhang Youxia is being ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule. By Adam Nossiter Rifaat al-Assad, who as a paramilitary ...

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When ordering elite troops to storm a fortified compound in Caracas and capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro on Saturday morning, President Donald Trump tapped into a long history of U.S.

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...

It was a chilly day in Columbus, and every student I knew at Ohio State University was crowded onto the open-air South Oval to hear Bill Clinton, the little-known governor of Arkansas. I came out of ...

In July 1979, Saddam Hussein staged one of the most chilling purges in modern political history. Calling hundreds of Ba’ath Party loyalists into a packed theater, he accused dozens of them of plotting ...

ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, shocked the world with its rapid rise and extreme violence. This video explores the origins of the group, from political instability in Iraq and Syria to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier sails to the Caribbean, the U.S. military continues striking drug-carrying ...

In December 2024, the Islamist movement Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Organization for the Liberation of the Levant) marched from its stronghold in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib, near the Turkish border ...

MURFREESBORO, N.C. — A man died in a shooting early Saturday at a Halloween party in Murfreesboro, N.C., according to the Hertford County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said they responded to ...