Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence ...

Western rural Homs is a land of breezeblock buildings, green fields and drystone walls. The sky hangs grey over the landscape ...

Country’s security forces say they targeted a rebel group, eliminating eight militants but also killing an undisclosed number ...

At President Trump's direction, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorised AFRICOM to carry out the administration's first ...

Syria’s former Baath regime carried out one of the country’s deadliest atrocities — the 1982 Hama Massacre — killing tens of ...

A hmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

calls for the minister’s resignation have multiplied in the young post-Assad Syria. “Appointing someone who participated in the cold-blooded execution of a woman in 2015 as Justice Minister is ...

President Donald Trump has announced the successful execution of precision military airstrikes targeting a senior ISIS attack planner and several of his recruits in Somalia. The airstrikes, carried ...

After 61 years of Baath rule ended in December 2024, survivors of the 1982 Hama Massacre are speaking out for the first time ...

Since the Islamist HTS militia seized power in Syria, reports of excessive violence and executions of members of religious ...