The 16-year extremist conflict has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around 2 million from their homes in the northeast, according to the United Nations. The violence has also spilled into ...

Workers at Kohinoor and Evershine, two souvenir shops right at the entrance of Bab Al Bahrain, were taken by surprise when Indian parliamentarians made a surprise appearance ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the millennia-old tombs of three senior statesmen, identified by inscriptions left on ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The U.S. military’s new posture comes even though many African armies remain ill-equipped and insurgent groups expand.

A Swedish man has been indicted as a member of the Islamic State group in connection with the killing of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014 ...

Hasan was an asylum-seeker from Syria who had been slated for deportation before he fatally stabbed three people.

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex. The tombs of three ...

A Syrian man stood trial in Duesseldorf on Tuesday over a knife attack claimed by Islamic State in which three people were ...

Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. Bringing them home was more than a family matter.