The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

A U.N. special rapporteur was sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing human ...

The president’s new national security memo on Cuba reaffirms his old policy of punishment, which does nothing for US interests ...

UN Commission says violence in Syria needs to end. This could mean different things for Gospel sharing in the country.

As some members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) prepare to disarm, signaling a new phase in the peace process with the Turkish state, a lawmaker from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality ...

United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading Syria's interim government, an unpublished U.N. report said, a finding that could ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants under seal on July 8, 2025 for two senior Taliban leaders as part of ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

President Trump issued Executive Order 14312 (“E.O. 14312” or the “E.O.”) titled “Providing for the Revocation of Syria ...

Sharaa, to ensure the publication of all the findings of a fact-finding committee's investigation into the targeted killings of ...

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Wednesday filed text to permanently repeal legislation that imposed strict sanctions on Syria, following President Trump’s move to unwind penalties on the country ...