Today is the last day flags will be flying at half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy Carter. Carter died in Plains, Georgia, Dec. 29, 2024, at the age of 100. After Carter's death then ...

Flags across the nation will return to full-staff this week, following the 30 days at half-staff in honor of the death of former president Jimmy Carter. Carter died at the age of 100 in Plains ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, was declared Syria's head of state for a transitional phase and empowered to form a new legislative council, state media ...

Hassan Abdul Ghani, the state-run SANA news agency said. Once Syria’s most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator. Jan. 23, 2025 Al ...

Many senior military jobs were held by members of the family’s minority Alawite sect, and party membership was used as a cover to give it a nationalist rather than a sectarian nature.

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known as Abu Saleem), a close confidant and office secretary of the late Syrian president since the late 1960s. Daboul was born ...

TUNIS, January 27. /TASS/. Five people, including one child, were killed after militants attacked an Alawite village near the city of Hama in central Syria, the Al Watan newspaper reported.

Diaa Hadid covers South Asia with a focus on India from NPR's bureau in Mumbai. It's a position she began in October 2023. She arrived there after spending six years in NPR's Islamabad bureau ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led atrocities and Alawite militias escalate attacks on HTS-affiliated groups ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led atrocities and Alawite militias escalate attacks on HTS-affiliated groups ...

With Pull a Sword codes, you have a better chance of pulling your very own sword from the stone. Not just anyone can wield Excalibur, but you’re not just anybody, are you? You have determination and ...