Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some ...

President Trump's announcement that US sanctions on Syria would be lifted was met with elation by Syrians. Syria has a long ...

Before he became the new pope, Robert Prevost was the bishop of Chiclayo, a city in the north of Peru, where many describe ...

International students — and the big tuition checks they bring  — are a key ingredient in the American college business model ...

President Donald Trump wrapped up the first day of his three-nation tour of the Middle East today in Riyadh. He thanked the ...

Access to ambulances is severely limited in parts of Ghana, something that can be especially hazardous for pregnant women ...

President Trump’s announcement that US sanctions on Syria would be lifted was met with elation by Syrians, but the country still has a long way to go to recover from years of civil war and brutal ...

José Mujica was president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 and presided over a period of progressive governance that matched his want-for-nothing lifestyle. He forsook the presidential palace in favor of ...

A court in Zurich has been hearing a criminal case against a woman accused of trying to make her neighbor’s cat her own. The public broadcaster SWI swissinfo reports that the woman systematically fed ...

Germany is a federal parliamentary republic. It has no monarchy, but this week, the German government banned an extremist group that claims otherwise — a fringe movement known as the Kingdom of ...

Israeli missiles have slammed into two Gaza hospitals in recent days, killing more than a dozen patients, according to medical staff at the facilities. Amande Bazerolle, an emergency coordinator for ...

Musician Sami Galbi grew up in the Swiss Alps after his parents migrated there from Morocco. As he puts it in one of his songs, he often felt like a “stranger in both countries, present but absent.” ...