From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little more than masks for clans and tribes. Disillusioned, many intellectuals and officers sought salvation in nationalist dictatorship or a union with a Greater Arab Nation.

President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, on Thursday met with UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi , at Baabda Palace.  The President called for the swift ret

Qatar says the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) on Sunday. This will pause the fighting after 15 months of war and see the release of

These sophisticated UAVs join Tehran’s other lethal drones, which have been prominently used by Russian forces in Ukraine. Iran has suffered several debilitating blows to its military apparatus this year.

"I acknowledge the fact that we are not dealing successfully enough with our advocacy," Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar told Newsweek in Jerusalem.

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The Palestinian militant movement Hamas handed four female Israeli soldier hostages over to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza on Saturday,

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas hands 4 female Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross after parading them before a crowd. Britain's defense ministry said about 1,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed and about 3,000 more had been wounded fighting against Ukraine.

The American Red Cross is urging people to donate blood at a time when the typical winter drop in donations is worsened by the cold snap and the California wildfires. Locally, weather forced the cancellation of a blood drive in Factoryville on Wednesday.

It’s not news that Trump is a creature of the society of the spectacle. Creature and master, emanation and accelerant. He is the image. The mugshot. He’s the picture of himself on Fox he sits watching for hours each day – rightly understanding that doing so is doing politics,

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.