A Christmas speech by a local politician from Germany’s conservative CDU party has led to outrage and disbelief. Udo Witschas, the district administrator from Bautzen in the German state of Saxony, said in the speech that he did not want to "bleed school or recreational sports for this...

The wages Youssef once earned as a taxi driver in Aleppo used to be enough: though the days were often long, his family had never been in need. But in recent weeks, acute fuel shortages have paralysed regime-held parts of Syria and Youssef is increasingly unable to find, let alone...

The top US military general for the Middle East warned Thursday that Turkey’s potential land operation into Syria could further destabilize the entire region. “I’m very, very concerned about that because that can destabilize the region and call our SDF partners off of the [ISIS]...

Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris. Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders,...