The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six ...

When the Assad regime expropriated land outside Damascus from local farmers, it became part of a chemical weapons facility.

Farmers’ livelihoods were taken away to build military bases and housing for regime supporters. The new government now seeks to redevelop these areas without redress ...

Federica Rossi is an Italian freelance journalist based in Rome. Her work covers climate change, the green transition, ...

Opposition leaders have said they won’t ally with an Arab party, though polls show this is their only sure path to victory ...

The flocks of the Italian capital are helping to protect its remaining natural parks, even as pressures on the ancient practice grow Federica RossiFederica Rossi is an award-winning Italian freelance ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev / Dec 19, 2017 / Yuri Kochetkov / AFP via Getty Images “Their concrete goal is to destroy the Russian ...

For the second time in just over a quarter-century, Serbia has seemingly thrown off the yoke of one-man rule. In October 2000, Serbians mobilized — first at the ballot box, then in the streets — to ...

Turkish-backed Syrian fighters operate a checkpoint in northwestern Syria in March 2018. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images) Turkey’s relationship with Syria’s new leadership has undergone a ...

In the dim basement of a crumbling building, Alexei Selivanov, a Russian Cossack with a thick black mustache, keeps his gaze fixed on the monitors before him. They stream live drone footage of enemy ...

Laique was built to show that citizenship could outrank confession, but a policy shift is being seen as a sign of the country ...