In recent months, Russian forces have been advancing in eastern Ukraine at the fastest pace since the early days of the ...

Syrians waited in long queues at border gates in southern Turkey this week, preparing to return to their homeland. With a ...

Sednaya prison in Damascus was once synonymous with death and disappearance. Yet over the past week, thousands of families ...

International college students — and their schools in the US — are bracing for President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

Spain exported Christianity across the world through missionary expeditions, but as the religion dwindles across Europe, ...

A new directive from the Taliban bans women from studying dentistry, nursing and midwifery. The group, which took over the ...

The number of foreign-born older people in the US is increasing fast: It’s expected to reach 23% of the total older ...

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country and, for the first time in two decades, Syrians say they are ...

Emerging research pinpoints the exact time when Neanderthals and Homo sapiens began interbreeding to 47 years ago. That interbreeding left a genetic marker on modern human beings. Host Carol Hill ...

An Iranian singer was hailed as a hero by supporters on Thursday but faced prosecution after giving an online concert without wearing a head covering — the hijab — in defiance of the Islamic dress ...

If you’re unfamiliar with the science around “mirror life”, well, welcome to the club. But this somewhat obscure field of research is coming under new scrutiny. Because a new study says that “mirror ...

For the first time in two decades, Syrians say they are experiencing a taste of freedom after President Bashar al-Assad’s ...