In a desolate area of Syria where Lebanese militant group Hezbollah once held sway, security forces shot open the gates to an ...

The timing of the attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ahead of the apparent peace talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine seems bizarre in the extreme. It is surely not the action of a ...

A former Democratic congresswoman, Gabbard is one of President Donald Trump’s most contentious nominees, given her past ...

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad.

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Let’s look at chemical weapons. Others have already said that Trump “should get tough” on states with these weapons, but states in political transition, like Syria, present another opportunity.

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...

Senators questioned Gabbard about views seen as echoing Russia's justification of its war, criticism of US involvement in Syria and a 2017 meeting with Bashar al-Assad.

After concluding the attacks involved chemical weapons, the United States, the United Kingdom and France launched retaliatory strikes against military targets in the Syrian government. But Gabbard ...