Background: Norway imposed sanctions on Syria in 2011 in response to Assad’s crackdown on protesters that sparked the civil ...

A dry wind rushes through the meanders of destroyed streets, bringing up the acrid smell of smoke laden with gasoline. In the ...

Sudan's army chief and de-facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accused Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar of not being ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Iran, Ukraine and other issues on Thursday in a ...

Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet that Baku blamed on Moscow. Growing ties between ...

Iran is a close ally that has long figured prominently in Russian strategic calculus, but events of the past month have ...

One of the most immediate and obvious changes that WWI brought about was the collapse of longstanding empires. But what ...

Courtesy of Mr Trump and his associates, Turkey’s relations with America, having plumbed new depths over much of the past ...

I also visited Georgia's last-remaining Doukhobors, or "spirit wrestlers", members of a pacifist Christian sect with roots in ...

Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...