Nathan Hodge is a former Moscow bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously a Kabul-based correspondent, covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Journal.

I wanted to be among the passengers of the inaugural AJET flight from Ankara, as I also had a prior invitation to attend to. The flight, initially scheduled for last Tuesday, was unfortunately ...

LONDON (AP) — Lawyers for an Egyptian poet and activist who has been allegedly detained and held in solitary confinement ...

Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a ...

I kept this story in my head," novelist Nisar Abasa, 80, told dpa. "I just knew that one day before I die I can publish it." ...

A joint statement by the finance ministries of Saudi and Qatar said the decision to pay Syria’s nearly $15 million debt to ...

Syria's foreign minister attended a U.N. Security Council briefing Friday after raising his country’s new flag at the ...

Speaking in the Oval Office yesterday, Trump said that he had “no allegiance” to either side and that his only goal was to stop the war and save lives, but he did claim that Putin had made a “pretty ...

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani confirmed last week that Iraq had extended a formal invitation to al-Sharaa to attend the May 17 summit, following a previously unannounced meeting between the ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children ...