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Over the past few weeks the new US president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly claimed that the United States should“take back” the Panama Canal and that ...

Calls have been growing for England to boycott their upcoming cricket match with Afghanistan over the Taliban's repression of women ...

A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

Hezbollah and Syrian flags flutter on a military vehicle in Western Qalamoun, Syria August 28, 2017. (photo credit: OMAR SANADIKI/REUTERS) Syria’s new government has only been in power for two ...

Civil society advocate and executive director of Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) Jeanette Calder says ...

A student writes on a board in a classroom, next to the flag adopted by the new Syrian rulers, at a school following an announcement of the reopening of schools by the authorities, after Syria's ...

When asked if it was worth risking the life of a single U.S. Marine to turn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle ...