The Hala rsquo;ib Triangle or the Halayeb Triangle dispute is one of the ongoing 21st century conflicts lesser known to the ...

Since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was killed by the Morality Police in fall of 2022, Iran has been enveloped in protests. The movement, called “Woman, Life, Freedom” is in many ways ...

Legendary CBS News correspondent Bob Simon's family and coworkers are remembering him 10 years after his death. The award-winning newsman, who died suddenly in a Feb. 11, 2015 car accident in New York ...

In 1858, French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous said the Virgin Mary appeared to her at Lourdes. In December 1933, the pope ...

BC: The traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the ...

Having lost a third of her body weight during a 134-day hunger strike, a "weak" Laila Soueif on Monday urged UK Prime ...

Soon after the overthrow of the authoritarian president of Syria, Bashar Assad, a hashtag gathered steam on Egyptian social ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist.

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

The US invaded anyway, occupying Afghanistan for 20 years, killing at least 240,000 Afghans, most of them civilians, and spending some $2 trillion on propping up its detested occupation there. The ...

A mother's desperate hunger strike outside 10 Downing Street aims to secure her son's release from an Egyptian prison.