It was a year of wars, election surprises, royal health scares and the reign of new queens. Within this maelstrom, one ...

Ukraine has claimed to have struck a Russian industrial facility producing fuel for missiles, as Moscow says it has foiled several assassination plots on senior officers. At such a critical moment in ...

Political shifts in United States, Syria and war theatre in Middle East made international headlines throughout the year ...

Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

The fall of Assad creates a new wrinkle in a long-standing U.S. security concern: thousands of detained ISIS fighters held in ...

In April, Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, prompting Iran to strike back with more than 300 drones and missiles ...

What the bloc needs to recognize is that Syria’s fate is of key strategic interest and that it has a potentially fleeting ...

This account of al-Assad’s fall, much of which has not been previously reported, is based on interviews with Syrian, Iranian, ...

Donald Trump’s US presidential election win, the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the Paris Olympics were among the news ...

Donald Trump's US presidential election win, the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the Paris Olympics were among the news events that marked 2024. AFP looks back at the major stories that made the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Tuesday that he would help to find American journalist Austin Tice who went ...