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New Brunswick NDP leader’s proposal for a bigger Canadian role in Syria reflects a division running through the party over how to achieve peace

With its big cities straining, refugees are being bused to remote rural towns and testing a nation’s tolerance

Americans flocked to see the Pope in Philadelphia, where talk turned more to immigration and same sex marriage than religion

None of the leaders really pressed each other on the Syrian war. Doing so might have exposed difficult questions for all of them.

Francis’s visit was an interlude of joy in a terminally cynical town. But it would not last long.

The deadly stampede in Mecca raises hard questions for the Saudi king and harsh criticism from rivals

A small but growing group has launched a campaign apologizing for their country’s backing of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

They fled the Middle East and arrived in Turkey. But now, only the poorest refugees remain there—and they’re full of misplaced hope that help is coming

The welfare of Syrians is the last thing motivating Moscow’s military intervention in Syria on behalf of Bashar al-Assad, says Michael Petrou

Guatemala’s president was forced out of office; its top leaders were charged with corruption. But at least there’s a movement to tackle it. Not so in Mexico.