The former executive director of the influential NGO Human Rights Watch says that authoritarian regimes are not indifferent ...

A central agency inquiry will ensure a fair, transparent and thorough investigation and help bring those responsible to ...

After this week’s bloodshed, Druse leaders in Ashrafieh Sahnaya agreed to integrate militia fighters into government forces.

For the first time in the history of the Press Freedom Index, published annually by Reporters Without Borders, the conditions ...

U.S. officials have finalized new economic sanctions against Russia, including banking and energy measures, to intensify ...

Israel bombed an area near the presidential palace in Damascus early on Friday, in its clearest warning yet to Syria's new ...

It was when Sergei Lavrov and his aides raised their eyes heavenwards and performed the sign of the cross in unison that I ...

India has risen to rank 151 out of 180 in the World Press Freedom Index 2025. The report, put together by Reporters Without ...

The Sahel continues to be the region with the most terrorist violence, with Burkina Faso again being the country with the ...

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A 33-page study found in Iran's ransacked embassy in Damascus outlines what Tehran saw as its version of 'Marshall Plan' to ...

As Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth commented recently, an ideal American strategy would be one where Europe takes the ownership of the “conventional deterrence,” and it is implied that the U.S. will ...