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Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

The director of the UN World Food Program warned that some governments resist calls to boost funds for urgent humanitarian ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says that some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian ...

Israel’s Defense Ministry described the need to produce its own heavy munitions as a key lesson of the war in Gaza.

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of this ...

The 1982 Hama assault is often described as the model for Bashar al-Assad's later crackdown on the rebellion that began in 2011 and toppled him this month. When rebels seized Hama on Dec. 6 ...

But the U.N. and aid groups say Israel recently has again blocked almost all aid to that part of Gaza. Cindy McCain, the American head of the U.N. World Food Program, called earlier this month for ...

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one ...