By Agence France-Presse Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus’s security compound. Now the Assad dynasty has been toppled, its dungeons and torture chambers are giving up their secrets. Rebel fighters stand guard at the entrances to the forbidden city in the capital’s Kafr Sousa district, […]
By Agence France-Presse This year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo, on Monday urged Russia to stop issuing nuclear threats in a bid to prevail in its war in Ukraine. “President Putin, I don’t think he truly understands what nuclear weapons are for human beings,” said Terumi Tanaka, the 92-year-old […]
By Sarah K. Burris State Senator-elect Steve Chan was able to flip a blue seat in New York held by Sen. Iwen Chu in November — but now reports are examining his ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Chan, who was born in Hong Kong, won New York’s 17th Senate District that’s long been held […]