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China is a sovereign state in East Asia with a population of over 1.3 billion people. The nation possesses the world’s largest economy by some measurements, the world’s largest population and the fourth-largest territory. These are the building blocks...

Shares in producers fall after China's powerful central planning agency says country's "high steel demand period has passed" and inventories will stay high. Benchmark iron ore fell more than 1% on Wednesday to fresh lows last seen September 2012. According...

A member of Kurdish Syria’s YPJ unit, an all-female branch of the region’s military forces. (Erin Trieb) Growing up in the 1980s in Syria, Hediye Yusif was a good student. But it didn’t take her long to realize that she would have to drop out of school...

From Ian: Arab Factions Praise Jordanian Terrorist for Killing Israeli Schoolgirls After his release from prison on Saturday, Muslim Brotherhood and Palestinian factions praised a Jordanian terrorist who shot and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls and...

JAMES M. DORSEY Scholars, policy pundits, policymakers, and journalists have identified any number of reasons for a crisis in the Middle East and North Africa that, starting with the 2011 popular revolts, has swept the region; toppled leaders in four...