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Why Russia sailed its navy thousands of miles to Syria when doing so brings...
On Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a handful of videos glorifying its Mediterranean naval campaign to support Syrian President Bashar Assad.Cruise missiles were seen launching...
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Terrorism deaths dropped in 2015, but terror groups have spread even further...
In 2015, worldwide deaths from terrorism fell 10% from the previous year, despite an increase in the impact of terrorism around the globe, according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) released by the...
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Former US director of National Intelligence: Russia is a nuclear state and...
In August, 50 top national security officials from Republican administrations published a withering statement rejecting Donald Trump’s ability to serve as Commander-in-Chief.“Mr. Trump has demonstrated...
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'We're scared for our lives': Some Syrians view Trump's win as the 'most...
The Syrian government seems pleased with US President-elect Donald Trump's stunning victory last week.The government last week signaled its relief that Hillary Clinton lost, saying it was "happy" she...
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Congress wants Washington to respond to Russia's interference in the US...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers want Washington to respond to Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election and actions in Ukraine and Syria, despite...
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Hezbollah showed off US-made weaponry in a parade in Syria
It was Hezbollah's first ever military parade on foreign soil. And they showed off.Images of the parade, which was held last week in the Syrian city of Qusayr, showed a wide array of the militant...
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Syrian rebels are worried about their fate after Trump's election
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - On the eve of Donald Trump's election victory, members of a Western-backed Syrian rebel group met U.S. officials to ask about the outlook for arms shipments they have received...
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UN: Aleppo is facing a 'bleak moment' with all Syria convoys blocked and...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The besieged population of eastern Aleppo faces a "very bleak moment" with no food or medical supplies, winter approaching, and an increasingly fierce attack by Syrian and allied...
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Reports: Gas attack kills family, shelling hits school as Syrian regime...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A barrel bomb killed a family of six in rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Sunday, a war monitor, a rebel and two medics said, while rebel shelling killed seven children at a school...
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US condemns 'sickening' Syrian/Russian air campaign that has taken out every...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - All hospitals in Syria's besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes, its health directorate and the World Health Organization (WHO) said,...
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Obama and Putin spoke in Lima about Ukraine and Syria
LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for about four minutes on Sunday at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, a White House official...
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There are no more working hospitals in eastern Aleppo
Geneva (AFP) - There are no more functioning hospitals in the rebel-held eastern part of Syria's Aleppo, where more than 250,000 people are living under siege and many need urgent medical care, the UN...
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Head of Red Cross will lobby Moscow, Terhan to try to help Syrian civilians...
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, will fly to Moscow, Washington and Tehran in the coming days in a bid to secure access to civilians in Aleppo.Hundreds of people...
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Russian tankers defy ban and smuggle jet fuel to Syria through EU waters,...
LONDON (Reuters) - Russian tankers have smuggled jet fuel to Syria through EU waters, bolstering military supplies to a war-torn country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes in support of the...
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Aleppo has become a symbol of world inaction
Beirut (AFP) - The Syrian army's advances against rebels in east Aleppo have sparked international concern, but the world appears powerless to prevent the symbolic city from being recaptured by the...
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Looks like Syria's Assad is again dropping chlorine gas bombs on his own people
Containers of a chemical suspected to be chlorine were dropped by helicopters on rebel-held east Aleppo on Tuesday, causing breathing difficulties in some people, the Syrian Observatory for Human...
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US Ambassador to UN: 'Russian terror' against Syrian civilians will only...
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power sternly rebuked "Russian terror" in Syria in remarks made to the UN on Monday.Power gave a comprehensive review of Russia's activities in Syria bolstering the...
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Pentagon says US air strike killed 'senior al Qaeda leader' in Syria
An air strike carried out by the United States last week killed Abu Afghan Al-Masri, a "senior al Qaeda leader," near Sarmada, Syria, on Nov. 18, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said on Tuesday.Cook,...
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France: Assad and his allies are using US political uncertainty to launch...
PARIS (Reuters) - France accused Syria and its allies on Wednesday of using political uncertainty in the United States to launch "total war" against rebel-held areas in the country and said states...
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Thousands of civilians flee as fighting zeroes in on important town near...
ERBIL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) — Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled Tal Afar as Shi'ite paramilitary groups close in the Islamic State-held town on the road between Mosul and Raqqa, the main...
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