The Irrawaddy looks back at the key players that shaped Myanmar in 2024, a year in which the junta suffered serious military ...

Belarus, under dictator Alexander Lukashenko, continued to descend into totalitarianism, imprisoning people at will and ...

The UN envoy to Syria called on Wednesday for "free and fair" elections after the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable ...

Video shows long convoy of military vehicles, some with Russian flags, on highway north of Damascus. Video credit: Video obtained by Reuters. Another Democrat flips Republican in Texas border ...

A Zeppelin hovered overhead, and two trucks carrying Russian flags were seen traveling within ... political committee of Syria's Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham were "proceeding in ...

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has become Syria’s new strongman, replacing the Alawite regime of Bashar al-Assad. Once a partner of al Qaeda, Jolani now speaks the ...

To Moussa, victory means a time “when the Fulani people are free from the chains of the munafiqoon [hypocrites] authorities of Bamako, the Russian ... the Fulani ethnic group to which he belongs.

Ukraine is battling against a “prevailing” Russia in the eastern Donetsk region, Kyiv’s military chief has admitted, as Vladimir Putin’s forces look to secure as much territory as possible before US ...

As of December 2024, 301 Ukrainian civilian women are in Russian captivity, with 25 detained before Russia's full-scale invasion and 276 taken since, according to Olha Skrypnyk, head of the Crimean ...

Here's a map showing ... powerful group is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which led the lightning offensive against former president Bashar al-Assad, pushing him to flee to allied Russia.

A rights group has accused Russian mercenaries operating in Mali of committing serious abuses against civilians in the region. Malian armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner ...