Provides an overview of Syria, including key dates and facts about this Middle Eastern country. The new authorities have promised justice for crimes under the Assads, but there are huge challenges ...

(The Civil War just really did not ring a bell ... joke-stuffed musical adaptation of the Robert Zemeckis movie from the nineties. I could recline in comfort: all the heavy lifting was being ...

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Sarkin has written a manifesto condemning the current state of international law and the failure of the post-World War II and post-Cold War systems of governance to stem the tide of atrocities ...

Robert James Henderson was born in Sydney in late 1885 or early 1886, the eldest son of James Henderson and Amy Violet Henderson (née Richardson). He attended Fort Street School and Sydney Grammar ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik. The then Liberal Prime Minister Robert Menzies called it a “spectacular act of technology and propaganda”.

Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...

“We’re trying to get the war stopped, that horrible, horrible war that’s going on in Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine. We’re going to get a little progress, it’s a tough one, it’s a nasty one, it’s nasty," ...

An Israeli strike killed at least 10 people, including a family of four, in Gaza City overnight, Palestinian medics said Monday, as Israel pursues its 14-month war against Hamas militants ...

Tensions are rising between Bindi Irwin and her younger brother Robert as he pursues his solo career. As 21-year-old Robert prepares to host another season of I'm A Celebrity, a rift is ...