At Hong Kong’s Art Basel, painter Chow Chun-fai’s new works transport viewers back to the night in 1997 when the former ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the Assad family’s iron-fisted rule, ...

Early this year, a 2003 painting by Edosa Ogiugo ... making it a hub for global influences and a city known for its inclusivity. Houston has the largest Nigerian population outside of Nigeria.

Reconstruction on D.C.’s Black Lives Matter plaza began on Monday, March 10. (Tyrone Turner | WAMU) Crews in Washington, D.C. have begun painting over the city’s “Black Lives Matter” street mural, a ...

John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the press would mean the end of the republic. The holiday used to be a solemn ...

But last week, Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced a bill calling for the city to paint over the mural and rename the area Liberty Plaza — or lose federal funds. "The mural inspired millions of ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, Islamist-led government in Damascus and Syria’s hostile ... took place for over a ...

Iran late on Saturday launched a barrage of explosive drones and missiles directly targeting Israeli territory, in response to the bombing of Iran's embassy in Syria's capital Damascus earlier ...

A fighter from the Druze Liwa al-Jabal militia points to an area believed to be operated by smugglers and armed groups, at an outpost in Syria's southern province of Sweida, March 4, 2025. (AP ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (Reuters) – Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa called for peace on Sunday after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of ...