In November 2017, after a lengthy meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump boasted that he and Xi can solve “probably all” the world’s problems. Today, he believes he alone can solve ...

Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, ...

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

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

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

Organizers of a national conference to chart Syria’s political future say it will include all segments of Syrian society ...

It’s the third conference on Syria since Assad was ousted in December, and the first since President Donald Trump’s ...

Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. Representative with little intelligence experience, should be confirmed as the top U.S. spy on ...

Or is every bomb dropped, every missile launched, every bullet fired at children by Israel’s snipers, every threat to commit ...

For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

Denmark, Finland and Singapore have been ranked as the least corrupt countries in the world, amid a major rise in global ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...