A devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake near Myanmar's second-largest city has caused widespread destruction, complicating ...

AJ Rassamni has long advocated for cleaning up Blackstone Avenue. Now, he plans to do something about it officially.

But, if al-Sharaa and HTS do not move quickly to improve the economy, which contracted 84 percent during the war; if they seek to impose Islamic law—not an unreasonable concern given HTS’s ...

Harmeet Dhillon, the far-right lawyer nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, was confirmed by the Senate on a 52-45 vote Thursday. The confirmation ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

with more centrist elements attributing this to unpopular stances taken by progressives on culture war issues. A New York Times/Ipsos poll published in January found that 79 percent of Americans ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Syria’s civil war had supposedly ended three months earlier, on Dec. 8, but none of the country’s heavily armed groups have fully lowered their guard since then. True peace feels particularly ...

The People's Republic of China has claimed Taiwan through its "one China" policy since the Chinese civil war forced the defeated Republic of China government to flee to the island in 1949 ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...

Relief efforts from Friday’s devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake will be especially complicated with the country in embroiled in civil war, which began after the army seized power from the elected ...