Later this week, sculptors will present three potential designs for a monument to black union soldiers. The Raising the Shade ...

Provides an overview of Syria, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country. The new authorities have promised justice for crimes under the Assads, but there are huge challenges ...

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Sarkin has written a manifesto condemning the current state of international law and the failure of the post-World War II and post-Cold War systems of governance to stem the tide of atrocities ...

Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday, an explosion shattered the morning quiet on a residential street in Russia’s capital. A bomb hidden in a scooter detonated, killing a senior military officer. Photos ...

With the Russia-Ukraine war nearing its fourth year, attention is turning to President-elect Donald Trump and how his return to power may affect the conflict. Trump looms as a distressing question ...

The Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against its own population during the Syrian civil war also shows the strength of world reaction in favour of prohibition against their use.

If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat ...

Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...

WASHINGTON — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed an amicus brief urging the ...

Russia is keen to disrupt, weaken or even divide NATO and one way of encouraging that might be to convince the U.S. that war is coming with the alliance in Europe and to ask America if it wants to ...

BIRMINGHAM: All signs now indicate that the Ukraine war is reaching a significant turning point. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shifted his stance on what he might accept for Russia to ...