The Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, became ISIS’s most unexpected and determined enemies. ISIS feared them more than ...

COMMENTARY: This Easter, let us recall the 30 Ethiopian Orthodox martyrs and the tenuous, painful and yet real progress made ...

The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

Five jihadists have been found guilty of holding French journalists captive in Syria for the terror group Islamic State. One of the guilty, Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, has ...

Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first teaser for “One Battle After Another,” the latest film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall ...

But the director will return on Sept. 26 with One Battle After Another — and he’s coming back with guns blazing. The first-look teaser trailer for the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana ...

Kobani fought in many battles, including in Raqqa and Manbij, and was badly wounded twice – once on her face and once on an arm. She oversees thousands of soldiers, mostly women, she said.

On a visit to Iraq in 2017, my interpreter, a resident of Raqqa and a former supporter of the rebels, told me he was committed to Assad because he had seen the alternative. The alternative, even if ...

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(RNS) — ‘Having served as an active Bishop for 29 years, Bishop George Edward Battle Jr. will take his place in history as one of our longest-serving active bishops,’ said AME Zion Church ...

AL-MASSAOUDIYE — Sara (a pseudonym) wore a fuzzy rainbow jacket, her blue rubber sandals caked in thick mud as she trudged up the road from the river marking Lebanon’s northern border with Syria on ...