Whatever the expectations for President Trump’s new relationship with Russia, anyone looking for a dramatic shift from the Kremlin is going to have to wait past Day One.  While some Russian companies and political activists have taken advantage of “Trumpomania” here, holding...

Left-wing sympathizers are headed to the polls Sunday to choose two finalists among seven candidates vying for the Socialist Party nomination for president. The primary is open to all who are registered on the party's electoral roll and for a €1 ($1.04) fee, 1.5 million - 2 million voters...

(Al-Jazeera)- A letter from a young woman to her fallen husband, a pro-Assad fighter in Syria, was recently published in Tasnim News, one of Iran's most prominent news agencies affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "This shrine [the Zaynab shrine] is sacred ... I am...

Iraqi forces used to facing deserted, explosives-rigged streets and booby-trapped buildings are discovering fewer bombs planted by jihadists in Mosul than in earlier battles against them. The Islamic State group has no qualms about killing civilians, but the presence of a large number of...