Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence, faced sharp criticism from Democrats ...

President Ahmed al-Shara vowed to be inclusive, but the way crucial decisions have been made has left some Syrians wary.

As the new Damascus authorities strive to restore their country and its diplomatic links they understand that Moscow is ...

Syria’s former governing party, the Baath, is no more. The party had ruled the country for decades until it was overthrown, along with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on December 8 after ...

Russia lost a key ally when the Syrian President was ousted by Islamist rebels last month. NPR visited a Russian air base in western Syria to examine how Moscow will fare under Syria's new rulers.

Hamas will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, as well as five Thai nationals during the next ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and ...

After more than fifty years of iron-fisted rule, the Assad regime in Syria was finally overthrown a few weeks ago. Leading ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

After a 13-year hiatus, commercial flights between Turkey and Syria resumed Thursday, marked by a Turkish Airlines flight ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers. That's according to ...