The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party, as Germany prepares for elections.

Finding the remnants of the old dictatorship and bringing them to justice has emerged as a top priority for the new administration in Syria.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”

Human rights organizations and residents describe the situation in the enclave as getting more desperate. Here is a closer look.

The danger and hardship gets worse by the day for civilians in eastern Ukraine. Still, they resist leaving the places that have become their homes.

The war with Hezbollah has cleared out the north of the country — save for a hardy few and their thousands of prized fish.

Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. With so many ships at sea, the idea of using some to cause havoc may be proving irresistible to the Kremlin.

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.

Here’s what he found.