Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

President Trump signed an executive order this week lifting most sanctions on Syria. Ahead of that action, U.S. officials ...

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order later Monday terminating the US sanctions program, against Syria, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, a bid to boost the nation’s economy ...

Though other factors are surely at play, church leaders in Nigeria insist the attacks are part of a systematic campaign to drive Christians from the region or force their conversion.

The entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, where 63 people are being held hostage, seen in 1980. Graffiti on the wall ...

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This change of tone, however fleeting, came after the intense U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites this week, ...

For nearly a half century, the world has witnessed an enmity for the ages — the threats, the plotting, the poisonous rhetoric ...

Rebels said they would swiftly free political prisoners. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said he wants Syria to be a "normal country that builds good relations with its neighbors ...

Over 2 million Syrians have returned home since Assad’s ouster in December, UNHCR says, calling it a hopeful sign amid ...

How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad A portrait of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is taken off the wall of a regime prison in Damascus, Syria.