US President Donald Trump's surprise backing of Morocco's claim to sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara upended years of international consensus, but will this break a deadlock or inflame a conflict? AFP looks at how a dispute often dubbed a "forgotten war" suddenly shot to world...

One day after the Electoral College affirmed Joe Biden as US president-elect, the top Republican in Congress broke weeks of election silence Tuesday and sent a sober message to a defiant President Donald Trump: it's over. For more than a month Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had...

In late October, Farhan and his two sons finished packing up their olive harvest to transport it to the city center of Afrin in northwestern Syria. But before doing so, they pondered the possibilities waiting for them. “Would we be able to sell our olives at a good rate? Would the...

Hussein Khattab, a freelance reporter for the Arabic service of Turkey’s state-run broadcaster TRT, was assassinated in the Syrian city of Al-Bab on Dec. 12 by unidentified assailants on motorcycles. Ammar Hamou, a well-known Syrian journalist, was a colleague and friend of the...