The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

After overcoming homelessness, Kristy Smith became an advocate for others, designing tools to help Sacramento residents get off the street and into permanent shelter. A new bill ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has made his first public statement after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location during the 12-day war as ...

The world’s lawlessness was made visible in August 2013, when Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad used sarin gas to kill 1,400 people in a suburb of Damascus. Barack Obama had warned that chemical ...

They fled Syria years ago. Now, they spend their first Ramadan back amid nostalgia, relief and loss By MARIAM FAM, Associated PressMarch 29, 2025 ...

They fled Syria years ago. Now, they spend their first Ramadan back amid nostalgia, relief and loss As they spend their first Ramadan in their country in years, many Syrians who’ve recently ...

The spiritual leader of Syria's Druze minority launched a scathing tirade against the new authorities in Damascus on Thursday, calling the government "extremist, wanted men", a day after a deal was ...

The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by Yemen’s Houthi militants.

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's ...

In Syria, Assad spoke of token reforms, while directing his security services to put down the protests with force. Almahmoud, who came to Spokane about eight years ago, also had lived near Daraa.

The Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra was a magnificent 2,000-year-old monument, constructed in the first century CE and later expanded by Roman Emperor Hadrian.