At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the ... then led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, traveled to Syria to create a new affiliate there to fight in that country’s civil war.

Slowly, at the level of nation states, more and more countries are growing aware that the migration policy pursued so far has ...

Austria's FPÖ, Spain's Vox and France's Reconquête are among ... Kickl says in another pull-out quote. Migrants from Syria and Afghanistan, who make up the bulk of asylum seekers in Austria ...

Emblematic of institutionalised Islamophobia, the detention centre has placed Muslims outside of the law and continues to be used by US authorities to threaten their lives and rights A group of ...

Nine countries are known to have nuclear weapons, but it is the US and Russia that still account for almost 90 percent of the world’s nuclear arsenal, which is why arms control has historically been a ...

2:15 Traces of normal life return to Syria, one week after the fall of the Assad regime The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as ...

Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, on Wednesday abolished the country’s constitution and declared himself president during a meeting of armed factions in Damascus. The former rebel ...

Former al Qaeda member Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as Syria’s president for a transitional period. “We announce the appointment of Commander Ahmad ...

Vox Media laid off staff on Thursday for the second time in just over a month, this time at its general-news and politics site, Vox.com. Vox Media didn't specify the number of people let go but ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria The rebel coalition that seized control of Syria last month appointed its leader, Ahmed al-Shara, as president of the country to preside over a ...

More than a month has already passed since the collapse of the Assad regime, which ruled Syria with an iron grip for five decades. Now, a small group of Syrian refugees in Japan is hoping to use ...

The sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 brought an end to over 50 years of brutal Assad family rule. It may also mark the end of an even longer status quo in ...