The first ransom demand came in a text message on Sami al-Izoo’s phone 10 days after he witnessed his brother being kidnapped...

Ukrainian forces have stalled the Russian offensive in the eastern Donetsk region in recent months and have started to win ba...

Calin Georgescu, an ultranationalist candidate who won the first round of Romania’s abruptly aborted presidential election la...

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed yesterday for calm and unity after violence erupted last week between f...

Israel’s energy minister said on Sunday that he was immediately cutting off electricity to the Gaza Strip, a move that may ha...

Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, appealed on Sunday for calm and for unity as he moved to reassure the nation after...

The airport in Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, said it had canceled all flights on Sunday because of a one-day strike...

The gunfire began at dawn on Friday in the town of al-Haffa on Syria’s Mediterranean coast. At first, Wala, a 29-year-old res...

Two friends from Alberta, both with strong careers overseas and similar backgrounds — Harvard and Oxford graduates, members o...

As it moves to transform U.S. relations with Russia, the Trump administration is talking with Moscow about readmitting potent...