By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... In this, Alexander preserves Persia’s Zoroastrian religion. Briant says the book went “everywhere in the Middle ...

Assad fled, some of the only houses with round-the-clock electricity here are those that share a power grid with the ...

Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country’s instability stems from the absence of democratic rule; failure to manage its ...

It has now been almost a year and a half since Azerbaijan invaded Nagorno-Karabakh and expelled its indigenous 120,000 ...

We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion's role in society, government and national identity.

Leaders from eastern and southern Africa have called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in eastern Congo, where ...

Placing countries that violate religious liberties on a watchlist of the world’s worst offenders is not enough to prevent future violations, according to a panel discussion at the International ...

Smyth fled to South Africa in 2001, where he worked in parishes until 2014. The head of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa said the report found that warnings had not been passed on. “In ...

WASHINGTON − Speaking to students at Catholic University last fall, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh praised his colleagues' efforts to reinforce the “critical principal” of religious ...

To this day, Israel or the Palestinian territories may fall off some maps, depending on the politics of their makers. This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway ...

She’s authored the book “Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East” and more than 30 UN reports. She works on the topic of genocide and persecution of ethnic and religious ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Leaders from eastern and southern Africa on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Congo, where rebels are threatening to overthrow the Congolese government ...