From a Georgian seminary student to the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin reshaped the 20th century. This biography traces his rise through the Bolshevik Revolution, his brutal ...

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"It’s good to see that the institutions of the Republican Party still have enough power — and enough of a conscience — to ...

Ten months after rebels toppled the long-entrenched Assad regime, little-checked bloodshed has led many Syrians to abandon hope that the years of brutality may be over.

Rival centres of power are emerging, which broadly share China’s desire to undermine American hegemony, to cut the US down to ...

Iraq goes to the polls on 11 November. But with few Iraqis expected to actually vote, the real contest lies in how power will ...

President Donald Trump’s language to discredit opponents has included Illinois and the Chicago area where protesters have been compared to domestic terrorists and the president has called ...

It takes time to form a country . It takes patience and dedication to change attitudes . When people from disparate places ...

The Ecuadorian government is moving to criminalise dozens of those who fight to defend the Amazon forest from deforestation, ...

Syria's New Leader Promised Democracy. Then He Excluded Women From Parliamentary Elections. Women's political participation ...

On day one of the shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought announced that he would withhold funds for the Hudson ...