CAIRO – Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said, the first ...

By Mark Bendeich Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world’s population called voters to the polls, democracies ...

Assad, 49, will be unable to come back to her native London without her official travel documents amid reports she is severely ill with leukemia and has only a '50-50' chance of survival.

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al ...

UK condemns ‘reckless’ Kremlin after Putin’s apology over Azerbaijan Airlines crash - The UK has called for an independent ...

The year 2024 saw President Vladimir Putin further cement his power as he sought to counter Russia's isolation over the war ...

WHILE much of the focus in terms of foreign stories in 2025 will stem from Trump, and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, other major events should also be on our radar. Among other more ...

Supremacy over global networks and leveraging it to control the flow of goods, information, and capital constitute the ...

KOCHI: When news broke on December 8 on the sudden collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, even veteran West Asian ...

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing for the removal of the Taliban and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the ...

The Russian president apologises over the downing of an Azerbaijani plane in Russian airspace - without directly taking blame. Also: chess champion walks out of tournament over jeans row.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a ...