Syria’s new leadership faces an economy devastated by war and sanctions, with inflation and a decimated currency.

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

To some State Department officials and Middle East analysts who tracked the issue, it showcased the law of unintended consequences.

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

It’s been nearly a decade since the family has been together. Batool, who lives in the U.S., and her little sister thousands ...

By December 2021, UN agencies were describing Afghanistan ... in the 2010s, as the Syrian government brutally repressed a popular uprising and sank into civil war, the United States, the European ...

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that Putin is ready to sacrifice everything for total victory in the war. Although ...

However, due to the war, much of this potential has been ... El Salvador, for instance, adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021 and saw an increase in tourism and investment, despite initial ...

“Russian war planes and Syrian war planes destroyed the area ... One of Jibril’s last major operations before he died in Damascus in 2021 was against fellow Palestinians and opposition ...