President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than 50 years, always with an iron fist ...

The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a ...

The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral rang on Saturday evening in Paris for the first time since a fire devastated the Paris ...

BEIRUT — Insurgents' stunning march across Syria accelerated Saturday with news that they had reached the gates of the ...

It has been a dramatic week in Syria as the country's long-stagnant civil war, which began in the early 2010s, has reignited. Insurgent groups have taken over big cities long controlled by Syrian ...

Weary Ukrainian civilians escaping war arrive every day. They come from the chain of coal mining towns that line this ...

Vows to shrink the deficit, pay down the debt and run government more like a business have long been a stock element of ...

Trump's campaign promised policies targeting the transgender community once he's in office. LGBTQ groups face fear, anxiety ...

BEIRUT — Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that has seen them take ...

It's not uncommon to see an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on murals, candles, statues and even clothing. She's a significant ...

To consider how climate change could cause some extinctions, imagine a tiny mountain bird that eats the berries of a ...