It is led by Commander Abdul Hakim Al Shiani, a veteran of the Chechen wars and the Syrian civil war. After weeks on the front lines, Benor and Vakha are taking a brief moment of respite in this ...

A monitoring group says 973 civilians have been killed in revenge attacks against the Alawite sect since Thursday.

The brutality of jihadist groups affiliated with HTS, which was brought to power in Syria as part of an imperialist design, ...

A Q&A with Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko on the Ukraine war, Putin’s repressive policies, and her exile at Harvard ...

Here’s a look at the 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia. Facts The conflict centered on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two “breakaway provinces” in Georgia. They are officially part of ...

Syria's new government is struggling to impose order in a country where some are settling scores. Sunni Arab fighters have killed members of the same religious sect as the deposed president.

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?” ...

Volodymyr Zelensky will not attend high-level talks between Ukrainian and US negotiators next week, he said on Saturday as he insisted his country was “fully committed” to peace talks.

This is not an isolated case. The execution of Ukrainian POWs has become a brutal hallmark of Russia’s war strategy, ...

Major General Apti Alaudinov, commander of a Chechen unit fighting for Russia ... been seeking peace from the very first second of this war. Realistic proposals are on the table.