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EU sanctions include bans on oil imports from Syria, as well as a ban on investment in the Syrian oil industry and a freeze ...

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As Donald Trump returns to the White House on January 20, Republicans will have a majority in the Senate. This means that his ...

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Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad's prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn ...

One of those cases involved Kiboni Savage, a man who ordered the firebombing of a home in North Philadelphia that took the ...