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Severe food shortages affect more than one quarter of the country’s population

Since the Assad regime’s entry into Damascus, prisons across Syria were opened, but Kurdish activists claim that many Afrinis remain imprisoned by armed groups, with their fates unknown. Click here for the full story in Kurdish.     

Travis Timmerman said he was released by ‘liberators’ who arrived in Damascus a day after longtime ruler fled

Other NATO members are responding to increased military activities of Russia and China in Arctic

It’s all diplomatic hands on deck in the Middle East as Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Jordan Thursday for talks with Jordanian and Turkish officials about the fall of the Syrian regime, and top Biden aides are pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza. A look at how U.S. foreign assistance is allocated and where it goes, French President Emanuel Macron is in Poland for meeting about security in Ukraine. Plus, what is "birthright citizenship" and what would happen if President-elect Donald...

Joe Rosenthal won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of US Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II

Enormous crowds gather at Mexico City's Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to honor the virgin on the 493rd anniversary of her apparition in 1531

Dockworkers' contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports

Soy moratorium was landmark voluntary agreement banning trade in soybeans from recently deforested areas

Yoon Suk Yeol's move to impose military rule on December 3 was rescinded within six hours, but it plunged the country into a constitutional crisis

Washington said 10 days ago it would send Ukraine $725 million worth of missiles, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and other weapons

Russia has been pushing disinformation campaigns targeting U.S. health campaigns in Africa. Egountchi Behanzin, a French Togolese activist, has been exposed in several investigations for discrediting U.S. and Western health campaigns in favor of Russia.

Syrian human rights group says likely more than 100,000 are dead 

Proposal follows similar national plan to battle antisemitism that Biden unveiled in May 2023

This week marks the 30th anniversary of war

Victim might have been targeted because of company’s size, influence

Top aides to U.S. President Joe Biden are in the Middle East this week, to push for a ceasefire in Gaza and to deal with the fallout in Syria following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.

Potential for ‘serious and lasting damage’ that goes beyond education and to health care for women

South Korean lawmakers pushed December 7 to impeach Yoon for the failed martial law declaration