Three-quarters of Syria’s 23 million citizens are Sunnis, one-tenth are Alawites, and the rest are a mix of Christians, Ismaili Shiites and Druze. Shambos said the situation inside Syria remains ...

The most recent report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) warns that advances in technology can be a double-edged sword, creating jobs while also requiring monitoring to protect those jobs. The ...

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered the U.S. and state flags in Mississippi be flown at full height on Monday during the inauguration of President Donald Trump. "This is a historic day for ...

Flags at the U.S. Capitol and in multiple states, including Ohio, will now be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, despite a nationwide mandate for flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of ...

Damascus (AFP) – Spain's foreign minister raised his country's flag at their Damascus embassy on Thursday more than a decade after Madrid suspended diplomatic activity and as Western countries ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom will temporarily raise the American Flag at the state Capitol to full height on Inauguration Day next week, joining a handful of GOP governors and ...

The feeling is a new one for the Alawites, a group that was powerful and influential during the dictator's rule. The Alawites are a minority sect which follows an esoteric offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Several Republican governors across the U.S. are ordering state flags, which are currently being flown at half-staff following President Jimmy Carter’s death, to be raised to acknowledge Preside ...

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on President-elect Trump’s Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by raising flags before the end of a customary 30 ...

“They told me, ‘You’re an Alawite pig!’ They treated me like an animal because I’m Alawite,” he said, speaking under the condition of anonymity for safety reasons. In a secluded ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana, speaks during a ceremony as the flag-draped casket of former ...