After a decade of unfathomable violence and human tragedy that has made Syria the defining war of the early 21st century, the fighting has tapered off but the suffering hasn’t. In 2011, Bashar Assad and his government briefly looked like another domino about to fall in the whirlwind...

Russia has signed a deal to produce 10 million doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy this year. The deal was announced Tuesday by the Italian-Russian chamber of commerce. It was signed by Adienne Srl, the Italian subsidiary of a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company, with the...

Kosovo on Tuesday sent a military platoon to Kuwait to take part in the country's first ever international peacekeeping mission. A ceremony was held at the army barracks in the capital, Pristina, in the presence of top leaders and western military attaches. “It’s extremely...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on International Women’s Day that the COVID-19 pandemic has seen “a rollback in hard-won advances in women’s rights” even as calls for women's empowerment echoed around the globe, from Myanmar and Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia and the...