Syria has announced an immediate nationwide ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF , ending nearly two weeks of clashes, even as Christians and other minorities remain concerned
We've heard many stories over the years from political prisoners who have escaped the horrors of the Chinese gulag. But now, there is a new group of prisoners – perhaps as many as three million Uyghur ethnics. Former Christian prisoner Ovalbek Turdakun knows first-hand what is happening to Uyghurs imprisoned inside the Chinese detention camps.
Explorers and historians are telling the world about the discovery of the wreck of a royal warship that sank in 1682 while carrying a future king of England, Ireland and Scotland.
The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group threatened Thursday to strike a gas rig Israel is setting up in the Mediterranean Sea and that Lebanon claims is in a disputed maritime area between the two countries.
The Biden administration on Thursday reopened a direct line of communication to the Palestinian Authority that was severed under former President Donald Trump.
As Li Qing sat fishing off the coast of Ludao, a tiny island in east Taiwan, a question kept troubling his mind. He knew he hadn’t lived a perfect life, and the weight of his sin burdened him.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks at a Tokyo news conference on May 20. Associated Press/Photo by Hiro Komae, file ...
A pro-Russian court in the separatist-controlled region of Eastern Ukraine known as the Donetsk People’s Republic sentenced two British citizens and a Moroccan to the firing squad for working to vio...