Nearly everyone fears death. How that fear influences human thinking and behavior is the focus of terror management theory (TMT) research. According to TMT, death ...

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad was met with widespread celebrations in Syria. But the situation is full of unknowns for the ...

There are different parts to this theory. First, we learn by observing others. Second, our mental state is important in the learning process. Third, learning doesn’t mean there will be a change ...

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Israeli soldiers opened fire on 14-year-old Naji al-Baba and his friends as they played in the woods near Hebron. Israeli forces have raided Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital in the latest of a series ...

Turkey opposes the Assad regime, but the fall of the government could disrupt Ankara’s aims to reverse refugee flows and defeat Kurdish forces in Syria’s north.

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the United States should not intervene in the latest conflict in Syria, where rebel forces opposing Syrian President Bashar al ...

After two major hurricanes made landfall in Florida two weeks apart, conspiracy theories about weather control circulated widely on social media. Such notions can have dangerous consequences, but ...

In a highly unusual call, the two men “discussed a number of global and regional security issues, to include the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,” a spokesman said. Even as Israel bombarded Syria ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.