politics

“Today is a special day,” said Alma Barragan with excitement in a video she shared with her supporters. The video…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad was re-elected in a landslide, officials said Thursday, ushering in a fourth…

When Sedat Peker, a convicted Turkish mob boss, began posting videos on social media earlier this month in which he…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday he wrote the country’s supreme leader to protest a decision…

Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state television announced Tuesday that only seven candidates have been approved by the country’s constitutional…

Iran has hand picked hundreds of trusted fighters from among the cadres of its most powerful militia allies in Iraq,…

Lebanon’s parliament will convene on Friday to discuss a letter written by the president saying Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri had…

BEIRUT (AP) — Groups of angry Lebanese pelted buses and cars carrying Syrians expatriates and refugees heading to the Syrian…