Assad, the Russian-backed dictator of Syria, has led to Russia needing to evacuate its military presence from the country. To ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

Analysts say the return suggests that Moscow is preparing to evacuate one of its most valuable overseas bases.

Security personnel of the former government have come in the thousands to so-called reconciliation centers to settle their affairs.

Here is a look at Arab Spring, anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread throughout the Middle East and Africa in 2011. Algeria January 4, 2011 – Protests begin, ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

Only the inquiry team and representatives from the Ministry of Defence have been allowed to attend the closed hearings, ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan made an unannounced visit Friday ...

Africa, with more Christians than any other continent, has in Nigeria the deadliest nation for believers at the hands of Islamic terrorists and suffers persistently high violence in a dozen countries ...

The impoverishment of northwest Syria has seen a rising trend in young Syrians being recruited as mercenaries to protect ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

From Syria to Libya to Georgia, Putin's grip on his global empire is loosening. Thus far only Turkey and Israel benefit. Will ...