Syria's interim President faces Western scrutiny over handling of jihadist fighters, sectarian violence, and democratic reforms.

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“Obviously Sharaa doesn’t control the foreign jihadis and does not call all the shots,” said Marwan Muasher, vice president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “What is clear is that ...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa has a lot to prove to win over Western powers. If the first few weeks of his rule are ...

Italy's offshore asylum protocol, which sends asylum seekers to detention centres in Albania, face legal challenges and ...

Italy’s right-wing government called it a magic wand for the migrants arriving on its shores, but a deal with Albania to ...

The new Primate will need to be savvy, navigating between conflicting pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian currents in the small but ...

Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

President Hashim Thaci has been released from a court based in the Netherlands to visit the tomb of his father who died last weekend.

A New History from Muhammad to the Present’ (Princeton Univ., May), the historian chronicles the religion’s 1,400-year evolution through profiles of figures who showcase its diversity.

After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...