Chad's leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, who was promoted to the highest army rank on Saturday, has made his mark since being propelled to power three years ago after his father's untimely ...

Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew. The ...

The Syrian strongman had for nearly 14 years held off an uprising that many believed had been ... Attention had been focused on the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas and Israel's strikes on Hezbollah ...

"The victims lived here for a long time while the accused recently shifted ... from where a constable on duty was shot a fortnight ago. On Saturday, a businessman was also murdered during his ...

"This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians," he said. "It’s a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a ...

The Fall of Bashar Assad After 13 Years of War in Syria Brings to an End a Decades-Long Dynasty BEIRUT (AP ... severing ties with Damascus 12 years ago. However, the geopolitical tide turned ...

Keenan Pearson is the first Cumbrian to be crowned British under-17 Strongman Champion A schoolboy said he has been left "speechless and shocked" after being crowned Britain's top young strongman ...

This impressive performance follows the publication of the EDB’s report, Central Asian Economy: A New Look, two years ago. The report highlighted remarkable economic progress ... could position ...

(Jean Chung / Bloomberg via Getty Images) They said it wouldn’t happen again in South Korea — not after more than four decades during which hundreds of thousands of people were beaten, tortured, ...

The research ties up some loose ends about different types of human-like species that shared the Earth with us in the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene, roughly from 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. ...

Around 5.5 million years ago, almost three quarters of the Mediterranean Sea evaporated into the air ... where the biggest drops in sea level would have been – and most salt deposits were found across ...