As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Phil and I had spent the morning in the Bedfordshire town for a BBC Radio 4 documentary. Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly had ...

Sri Lanka's Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala announced the revival of investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. Initiated under the new government, the probe examines ...

Syria's new curriculum sparks protests after subjects & books are scrapped, igniting fears of conservatism & calls for ...

To uncover the uncomfortable truths that often become the first casualties in turbulent times, the duality of human ...

Elon Musk, Sen. Mike Lee and others have taken to X to call for Tommy Robinson’s release from solitary confinement in the U.K ...

For Richard, that was when he was kidnapped in 2012 for five days while in Syria reporting for NBC. Yalda then tells the ...

Some 35,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return to their home country since the fall of long-time ruler Bashar ...

There was an outpouring of grief for Mr. Hamada in Syria and around the world. He’d become a symbol of resilience and courage ...

Picks this month include a Bob Dylan sleeper, a harrowing portrait of Syria, and Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road trip.

Despite censorship, depleted funding, and antagonism from both western and local film markets, there have been several ...