An Austrian woman has been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger’s Agadez city, local residents and the Austrian foreign ministry said on Sunday, the first time a European citizen is known to have been ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...

Washington needs a plan to create conditions for future U.S. investment to stabilize Syria — and to make sure Russia doesn’t ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior ...

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan accused Paris of turning a blind eye to Turkey's own security concerns and called on the country to ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is heading to Syria to encourage the transition in the country following the ouster ...

Chinese and Indian refiners will source more oil from the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, boosting prices and freight ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told The Associated Press that the U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the ...

A U.S. sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria is welcome, but "much more significant work ...