From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...
As the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime unfolded, the statue of his father, Hafez, was toppled in the city, with the revolutionary flag raised alongside the Druze star. Druze armed factions were among ...
A large flag on Trump’s property in Palm Beach was initially lowered to half-staff according to protocol but has since been raised in the days after Carter was buried Thursday in his hometown of ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The U.S. flag is shown at the Mar-a-Lago compound in Palm Beach, Fla., while a U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) issued a similar 30-day directive for his state. The AP reported a large flag at Mar-a-Lago had initially been lowered to half-staff but has since been raised.
It’s an honor that indicates that the country or a state is in mourning. The U.S. flag code lays out parameters for lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff, including a 30-day period for current or ...
The dictator has fallen in Syria, but what the new government will look like is still unclear. In this series, VOA’s Heather Murdock asks some in the country’s key minority groups what they ...
When Tatiana Dos Santos started playing flag football, she did so on a dirt field in Panama. By the time she left high school, she had played at the NFL Pro Bowl, held at Allegiant Stadium in Las ...
Kerala’s famed Kappad beach in Kozhikode and Chal beach in Kannur have been bestowed with the coveted Blue Flag certification by Denmark-based Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE ...
Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, speaks at a Hudson Institute event in Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2025. The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria is opening new ...