To grow oranges for profit and pleasure, was one of my prewar ambitions. And in the course of learning the business I met, at different times and places, some exceptional persons including Mustapha ...

Rajan Philips Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the Bashar Assad government were located Tuesday by Syrian civil defense workers in two separate basements in rural Damascus. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Critics lambasted it and audiences didn’t grade it much better. But despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” managed to open No. 1 at the box office with a ...

A candle is lit in support of Kyriakos Vogiatzakis outside the Cork & Flame restaurant on Portage Avenue on Friday night. Vogiatzakis died after being beaten outside his restaurant on Jan. 24 ...

The ongoing armed conflict in Sudan, which has intensified over the last 20 months, has resulted in an alarming escalation of ...

Ours is of economic development,” said Asaad al-Shaibani in a wide-ranging interview in Damascus, his first with the international press. “There needs to be law and there need to be clear ...

DAMASCUS, Ore. (KATU) — All lanes of Oregon Route 224 have re-opened following a car rash and an hours-long closure, Tuesday morning. Details about the crash, how many vehicles were involved, or ...

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus to step up the search for her son and said she hopes she ...

DAMASCUS — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria since 2012, said Monday during a visit to the Syrian capital that the incoming Trump administration has ...

He spoke from the Damascus headquarters of the defunct Fourth Division where the drugs were seized. The Fourth Division was controlled by Assad's brother, Maher. Earlier, the official SANA news agency ...

Read more‘Nobody was spared’: Damascus suburbs still haunted by Assad regime’s chemical attacks Other groups have also been accused of human rights violations and war crimes during the ...