The United States mirrored Europe’s colonial designs when it annexed Guam and Puerto Rico in 1898. But in larger countries, ...

A Syrian girl with the revolutionary flag painted on her face ... The design brought in by the rebels this week was first developed in the 1930s, during the French mandate. It was used by Syrian ...

Francophone Africa and French military bases have been two critical foreign policy challenges for Nigeria since 1960. The administration of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa had to formulate ...

MIAMI - When Art Basel weekend opened here in early December, Jimmy Butler and his coterie of celebrity friends gathered in the trendy Design District near luxury stores such as Cartier, Hermès and ...

The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.

Salome Zurabishvili has vowed to stay on as the president of Georgia, becoming an icon to thousands of pro-EU protesters ...

Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...

flag, as fellow demonstrators ... reconstruct the Soviet empire in many ways resembles Adolf Hitler’s blood-soaked campaigns to forge a Greater Germany. Even the first stage of Putin’s ...

The senator refuses to walk in lockstep with his party, and doesn't care one whit what his own colleagues say.

Historically, Syria has had a chequered trajectory, beginning as part of the Ottoman Empire before the First World War and ... Opposition to French rule seemed to have brought some unity which ...

The terms of the World War I-ending Treaty of Versailles required defeated Germany to grant the territories of West Prussia ...

The group is looking to exploit Syria’s uncertain future to rebuild its influence—half a decade after U.S.-led forces broke ...