A Qatari mission has begun searching for the remains of U.S. hostages killed by Islamic State in Syria a decade ago, two ...

Turkey’s president and Iraq’s prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate against security threats, including ...

A Virginia man has been sentenced spend more than 30 years in prison for a crypto scheme that poured thousands of dollars ...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump honored military mothers during a Thursday White House event.

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A Springfield man will serve more than three decades in prison for his reported efforts to collect and send funds to the ...

Khalil Hariri, an archaeology expert who worked at Palmyra’s museum, tells Josephine McDermott about his passion for its history and the personal price he has paid for the daring rescue.

Francis’ approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue differed notably from his predecessors, writes a scholar who studies ...

Iraqi Mohammed Jalal lost 10 years of his life seeking asylum in Germany, without success. Instead of being granted refuge, ...

Authorities in Lebanon and Syria are cracking down on Palestinian factions that for decades have had armed presence in both countries ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For much of the 19th century, Americans thought that the broad expanses of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans protected our ...