Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

Eleven people are dead after a rampaging gunman opened fire at an adult education centre in central Sweden, in what has been dubbed the country’s worst ever mass shooting. Armed police were scrambled ...

Partial transcript of a debate among King Farouk I of Egypt, President Shukri Kuwatly of Syria, President Bechara Khoury of ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

A hospital worker says at least 19 people are dead after the latest car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a northern Syrian ...

: Syrian citizens walk in front of buildings that were destroyed in Manbij, north Syria, March 31, 2018.

The map below, using USAID data released by U.S. Office of Foreign Assistance, shows the countries where USAID spent most ...