Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule ended as he fled Damascus amidst a swift rebel advance. Rebels declared the capital free, m...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faced a major challenge to his family's 50-year rule. Rebels advanced despite Russian and Iranian backing....

Those that have not followed the twists and turns of Iraqi politics may be surprised to know that the current regime in Baghdad is very pro...

With his white turban and dense, gray beard, his forehead marked by the bruising prized by some Muslims as denoting piety from frequent pra...

The green-eyed canine joins long and varied line of White House pets.

The Taliban are a jihadi force that believes in the practice, imposition and spread of extreme Sunni Islam through conquest and violence. H...

The BJP and Congress will come and go, but India needs to wake up to a formidable challenge; the threat of fake news and alternative facts ...

Worse would be the likely long-term consequences: faster US withdrawal from Iraq, leaving Iraq as yet another failed state of the region, r...

Cow emerged as 'Personality of the Year,' trumping other high-profile contenders for the top spot in Yahoo's list of 2015 'Year in Review' ...

Jindal, the Oxford-educated Indian-American, yesterday lashed out at his Republican Party to task for abandoning principles in favor of pol...

ISIS is successfully marketing its "caliphate," an Islamic empire that aims to unite world's Muslims under a single religious entity.

The states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...

The two largest democracies of the world, India and America, are both suffering from the second-term syndrome.

If India, especially now after the New Delhi attack on an Israeli diplomat, were to post a relationship update on its ties with Tehran, Tel...

India should help Pakistan and Afghanistan find ways to move towards a healthier economy, a more stable and stronger polity and a freer soc...