Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

Concurrently, marine traffic monitors show a Vladivostok-bound cargo ship, Ursa Major, previously registered as Sparta III ...

Sharaa, announced that all weapons, including those held by armed Kurdish factions, will be surrendered to “state control,” ...

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 20 people. One of the strikes overnight and ...

Whether unconventional leaders have been good or bad for their countries is debatable, but they definitely change the course ...

Asma al-Assad grew up in Acton, west London and, after attending a private girls' school, graduated from King's College ...

Assad's fall has helped expose just how much Captagon – a stimulant widely used in the Gulf States – was being manufactured ...

Just 12 trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two-and-a-half months, aid group Oxfam said, raising the alarm ...

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will visit Damascus on Monday and meet with Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Jordanian foreign ministry said in a post ...

As the state rounds up dissidents and dodges economic reforms, there is little hope for a course correction in the year ahead ...

Ksenia Yudaeva, a sanctioned Russian central banker advisor, has been appointed by Moscow as its executive director for ...

A Russian military cargo ship, tasked with transporting military equipment and weapons from Syria, suffered a breakdown near ...