The meeting raised hope that Syria will be conclusively rid of chemical weapons after years of delays. Read more at ...

Syria’s newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first foreign trip since ...

Hamas released eight hostages on Thursday — five Thai farm workers and three dual German-Israeli nationals — in exchange for ...

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied ... parties that brought current Iraqi Prime Minister ...

Three cabinet nominees ‒ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel ‒ faced a questions from Senate confirmation ...

Most of the 20 or so people were survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack ... the fall of former President Bashar Assad in a lighting rebel offensive last month. Qatari Minister of State Mohammed bin ...

Hamas will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, as well as five Thai nationals during the next hostage release set for Thursday, Israel and Hamas said Wednesday as their ...

Crowds of displaced Palestinians made the arduous journey back to heavily destroyed northern Gaza for a second day Tuesday, under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when an uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad ... But the overthrow of the Assad regime in late 2024 by opposition forces led by the ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of impunity. In recent years he was even beginning to be welcomed back to an ...

Judges in France have reportedly issued a new arrest warrant against Syria's deposed leader Bashar ... al-Assad by French judges, who filed a mandate against the deposed president in November 2023 ...