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

National Evangelical School of Nabatieh (NESN) damaged in the war between Israel and Hezbollah. The predominantly Shiite city ...

Painter William Birch moved to Philadelphia from England in 1794 and made a name for himself for his exquisite enamel copies ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

A diner may barely notice the small aesthetic touches that make a restaurant shimmer. The texture of the menu paper, the material of a wine book cover, the feeling of the font that spells out the ...

Like those books, Revolution is full of cool Cold War art: stills, set photos, lobby cards, and movie posters ... and Costa-Gavras' 1969 Greek thriller Z. Uday Bhatia traces the rise and ...

Some of the movies it examines present political violence with commitment (several of the filmmakers had experience as, or worked closely with, left-wing and partisan fighters), others with irony.

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, visits Aleppo and encourages local Christians ...

“The show of force with the marches of a specific group of Pakistanis in the centre of Athens is a danger signal that we ...

Lops: Lops is arguably the game’s poster child (aside from perhaps Poseidon), but his ... Ares: A more stylish take on the Greek god of war that gives me Dante from Devil May Cry vibes. Freyja: ...

Theodoros Kolokotronis is undoubtedly the ultimate symbol of the Greek War of Independence, which took place from 1821 to ...

Hamas has since claimed that his wife Shiri and their young sons Kfir and Ariel Bibas have been killed in captivity, which Israel has not confirmed.