U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Friday, pressing ahead with efforts to unify Middle East nations in support of a peaceful political transition in Syria.

A Georgia middle school teacher resigned after he tossed an 11-year-old student across the classroom and allegedly made sexual remarks about the child’s mother. DeRenne Middle School student ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — The United Nations chief says the fall of Syria’s authoritarian government has brought hope to the troubled Middle East, and pledged the global body’s support to the ...

DOHA, Qatar—The struggle to depose Bashar al-Assad’s regime took more than 13 years, causing untold death and destruction, because outside powers turned Syria into a proxy battlefield for ...

President-elect Trump on Monday threatened to unleash “hell” in the Middle East if hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration Jan. 20, underscoring ...

A clash is looming over an increase in pupil numbers for a primary school in Caversham. The Heights Primary was founded as a free school in 2014. Initially situated at Westfield Road Park ...

I’m reading in the paper, there’s been 13 complaints in that time. ‘In the newspaper, I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age, just from ...

Welcome to the 2025 PS Reading Challenge, a different kind of book club where we introduce 50 new prompts to inspire your next read. We hope you're just as excited as we are. This year ...

President-elect Donald Trump named Massad Boulos, a Lebanon-born billionaire and the father-in-law of Trump's youngest daughter Tiffany, as his senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs on ...

Massad Boulos, to join his Cabinet as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. "I am proud to announce that Massad Boulos will serve as Senior Advisor to the President on Arab and Middle ...

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Photo: Ximena Borrazas/Zuma Press WASHINGTON—As the Biden administration seeks to broker an end-of-term peace deal in the Middle East, it is bringing along a surprising back-seat partner ...