Fatma Youssef stuffs rice, chicken or meat and vegetables into boxes spread on her dining table -- tens of them in the last few weeks. On some, she scribbles "Be well" in Arabic; on others, she writes "Together, we will get through this." Youssef doesn’t know who will eat her food. Still,...

The wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been named as the leader of a so-called "anti-corruption campaign" that saw the once influential tycoon Rami Makhlouf stripped of his assets and confined to his home. Asma Al-Assad has been at the head of the campaign to seize Makhlouf's...

France held a scaled-down annual Bastille Day celebration Tuesday, with none of the usual tanks and troops parading down Paris's Champs Elysees avenue, in a concession to the COVID-19 epidemic still stalking Europe. Instead, President Emmanuel Macron, standing in the back of a military...

The US presidential election pits a politician who supports environmental regulation and diplomacy to tackle climate change against another determined to dismantle such policies. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has focused on dismantling former President Barack Obama's climate agenda...