The government includes ministers educated in the West, one woman, and members of the Druze, Kurdish, Christian, and Alawite ...

Erdogan knows the playbook – he also rose to national prominence as mayor of Istanbul, back in the 1990s when Turkey was ...

He seemed not to have given much attention to ethnicity which would – and in Pakistan's case did – stand in the way of nation building. He himself belonged to a small ethnic group called the Khojas ...

The toll from Myanmar’s earthquake rose to 1,700 on Sunday, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to ...

Something unexpected is happening in Turkey. A centrist party, which has been shifting ever further to the right over the ...

The list of ministers appears to be a compromise between calls for a diverse cabinet to unite the divided country while ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announced a transitional government on Saturday, appointing 23 ministers in a broadened ...

Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power ...

Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. Families gathered for ...

Partly cloudy. Medium chance of showers about the ranges, slight chance elsewhere. Damaging winds possible about the ranges in the morning and early afternoon. Winds south to southeasterly 25 to 40 km ...