White Helmets urge no-fly zone in Syria
The head of Syria's "White Helmets" civilian defense group called Monday for a no-fly zone over Idlib and other north-western areas to end air-strikes...
British PM: Not certain if 'Jihadi John' killed in Syria
A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John, according to...
Inside Assad's Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for...
Afghanistan postpones its presidential inauguration
A ceremony to swear in Ashraf Ghani as president has been delayed, but contradicted reasons cited a day earlier by the U.S. government behind...
New Saudi-Iran crisis threatens wider escalation
The last time Saudi Arabia broke off ties with Iran, after its embassy in Tehran was stormed by protesters in 1988, it took a...
Life is carrying on in Sweden amid Virus
On Monday, Sweden's former state epidemiologist and current advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO), Johan Giesecke, encouraged Swedes to go out and enjoy...
Toilet paper panic-buying in Germany amid Virus outbreak
The Coronavirus pandemic has sent panicked shoppers across Europe into a toilet-paper buying frenzy.
Generally speaking, people tend to wildly overestimate their TP needs, as...
Coronavirus, 34,800 infected-people globally
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 34,800 people globally.
Most of the deaths have been in central Hubei province, where...
How the war on Isis is redrawing the map of the Middle East
New borders are being drawn, new fiefdoms are being carved out and the seeds of potential conflicts are being sown
Along the vast, zigzagging perimeter...
IISS: Gulf coalition in Yemen is largely successful despite Western Skepticism
The Annual Review of World Affairs assesses the events and themes of the year region by region. It includes essays that analyse the changes...
