As U.S.-backed forces prepare a final assault on Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian bastion Raqqa, displaced civilians are dreaming of spending the end of Ramadan feast back home. The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces militia is expected to begin its assault on the northern Syrian city as early...

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels fighting ISIS will announce the start date for the final assault on Raqqa city on Tuesday, aiming to oust the militants from their de facto capital in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday. The SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias...

Once the Balkan stronghold of pro-Russian sentiments, tiny Montenegro is on Monday silently celebrating its entry into NATO in a historic turn that has made the Kremlin furious. Despite the Russian anger and a deep split within the nation of some 620,000 people over the issue, Montenegro is...

A Russian analyst and journalist scrutinizing her home country from thousands of kilometers away, Kseniya Kirillova works out of an impersonal Oakland apartment that she deliberately keeps bare of mementos, except for a stuffed teddy bear memorializing another Russian opposition journalist who...