Even as it pounds Ukraine, Russia is expanding its military footprint in Africa, delivering sophisticated weaponry to ...

Worshippers pray at the Sayyida Zeinab shrine where many Shiite believe Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad is entombed, in Sayyida Zeinab, south of Damascus, Syria, Saturday March 15 ...

PARIS — The European Union lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria on Wednesday, but slapped new ones on people and groups it says participated in attacks on civilians during a wave of ...

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But their ties warmed significantly after Bashar Assad was toppled in neighboring Syria in a lightning rebel offensive in December. Since then, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have worked to stabilize the ...

“I’m facing all the existential questions now, because I’m really happy here,” he said. “I feel so much like the old me is alive again, and that’s so sweet to feel. I have a very tender feeling that I ...

That meant Ahmed and his wife were now grandparents to a pair of children they had never met, living a continent away ... filmed in a prison in northeast Syria housing ISIS militants.

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria announced Monday they have reached an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to… ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria considers the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions imposed on the war-torn country as a “positive step” to ease humanitarian and economic suffering ...