The Defense Department did not reveal the name of the ISIS official, but said the raid took place on Tuesday, Aug. 19. The ...

Topics included: compliance with the 1974 cease-fire agreement, violence in southern Syria, smuggling and refugees In a move described as surprising and unprecedented in recent years, Damascus ...

For the first time in decades, Syria and Israel have discussed the Golan Heights, Israeli troops in Syria and humanitarian ...

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Yet whatever its origins, unless checked swiftly and decisively, it threatens to dismantle what remains of Syria’s social cohesion and expose the transitional leadership as incapable of governing a ...

Comeaux’s trip to terror-linked Qatar for FIFA planning has critics slamming his reckless choice to align with a ...

The top priority should be to stop the fighting, he argued, with the broader disagreements fueling the battles to be resolved later. Ukrainians seem to understand this, but the trick is getting Russia ...

The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new ...

The top U.N. envoy for Syria is warning that its transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment ...

US forces eliminated a senior ISIS official in a raid in northern Syria, CENTCOM announces. The official was a key financier ...

U.S. forces on Tuesday killed a senior ISIS official in Syria, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced in a statement Thursday. The “successful raid” in northern Syria targeted an unnamed senior ...

Rights groups are questioning a multimillion-dollar arms sale by the United States to Nigeria as security forces in the west ...