By Stefan Schmitt Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office Jan. 20 that announced a 90-day freeze in U.S.

In a desolate area of Syria where Lebanese militant group Hezbollah once held sway, security forces shot open the gates to an ...

Moves by President Donald Trump's administration to cut U.S. foreign aid funding risk destabilising two camps in northeastern ...

Syria's central bank said a batch of Syrian currency had arrived at Damascus airport from Russia, where banknotes were ...

Members on both sides of the aisle agreed that the U.S. should engage with the fledgling Syrian government to ensure ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to ...

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

Samoan American politician Tulsi Gabbard has been sworn in as the United States’ director of national intelligence.

American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her ...