United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading ...

The violence erupted after a wave of kidnappings, including the abduction of a Druze merchant on Friday on the highway ...

Syria’s return to oil exports after the fall of the Assad regime is seen by many as a sign that Iran’s Shia Crescent of ...

The finding could strengthen an expected US push for removing UN sanctions on Syria. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Monitor Gulf,This week in the Gulf, all eyes are on Syria as Donald Trump lifts US sanctions in a bid to accelerate its ...

Putin mistook Trump’s restraint for weakness. Now, with its allies emboldened and patience exhausted, the United States will ...

The fearsome “Axis of Autocracies” bent on disrupting the U.S. led global order — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — looks ...

With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt ...

Some U.S. officials talked about an “axis” of authoritarian nations, but the American and Israeli war with Iran has exposed ...

The CIA’s disguises and forgeries back then were like works of fine art. But the agency in its first few decades was also a ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met counterparts in Southeast Asia on Thursday during his first visit to Asia since ...

The policy shift, issued last week, covers soldiers who served in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, ...