A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

Everyone seems to agree that ISIS is digging up and selling archaeological artifacts to make money. But no one seems to agree on how much money it’s actually making from its illegal antiquities trade: ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the U.S. and Russia have exchanged new ideas for Ukraine peace talks after he met with his Russian counterpart in Malaysia on Thursday.

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

In 1978, Israel invaded Lebanon to push Palestinian fighters away from its northern borders and put an end to rockets launched from south Lebanon. This fighting included the massacre of many civilians ...

Trump’s immigration policy has closed America’s doors and could change the way Americans think about citizenship and ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Finally, Maalula, a picturesque mountain village, is famous for its churches and monasteries, and for being one of the few ...

Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world.’ ...

A Syrian official says firefighters are facing heavy winds, high temperatures and ordnance left behind from the country's ...

Unexploded ordnance poses an elevated risk in the wake of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as displaced Syrians return home.