If you have a taste for the macabre and horror with a side-order of sympathy, then “The Lamb” is your book and don’t miss it.

From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong in every kid's library. Others ...

In The Great Siege of Malta, Marcus Bull attempts to tell a new version of the attack – but with some odd caveats over ‘Western’ views ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country’s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved ... we will make them for you,’” wrote Alia Malek in her book The Home That Was Our Country. The children were eventually ...

Ishaq joined so-called Islamic State in Syria and held nine Yazidi women and children captive as slaves. Details of those killed have emerged from embassies in Stockholm, as police describe the ...

He is the author of a historical novel, “No Country for Love,” and of three books of narrative nonfiction: “Faith at War,” “The Siege of Mecca” and “Our Enemies Will Vanish,” which ...

Tim Kaine, D-Va., to the Turkish-Syrian border to see the impact of the war. As part of that trip, they visited Gaziantep, where civilians from Syria were receiving medical treatment across the ...

DAMASCUS — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Ass ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Most of these executions were of officers who were closer to now-deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According to Syrian news outlet Sana, the authorities on Friday accused the members of a ...

“You can’t just stick them in a little hamster cage and put them on the shelf,” she said. As part of her rescue organization, Swan tries to share as much knowledge as possible with potential ...