From the outside, the building seems just one of the many in central Baghdad that are decaying from years of misuse - silent, windows shut. After 6 p.m., one knock on its steel-plated doors and a portal is opened to a different world rarely found in Iraq’s capital. Bodyguards...

The Syrian regime's decision to reduce the readiness of its army and armed forces has raised a panoply of questions related to the motivation and timing behind the decision on the military and economic conditions in Syria and raised the question as to whether the regime is seeking to convey...

Joana Dagher lay unconscious and hemorrhaging under a pile of rubble in her apartment after the massive Beirut port blast in August, on the brink of death. She survived because of the courage of her husband who got her out, the kindness of a stranger who transported her in his damaged car...

WUHAN, China (AP) — A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited two disease control centers on Monday that had an early hand in managing the outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The WHO investigators arrived in Wuhan, the...