As EU countries withdrew from rescuing migrants at sea, a motley crew of volunteers mobilised to fill the gap. Ten years on, ...

Italy and Greece are warning their European and NATO allies about a serious security threat coming from Libya. They believe ...

In the early hours of Wednesday, over five hundred people were rescued off the tiny Greek island of Gavdos, having packed ...

If you wonder why Israel attacked Iran now, with an overextended army tied down in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, congratulations on refusing to be a passive consumer of what passes ...

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) released a statement on Wednesday urging forces in Libya to show restraint, as armed ...

The head of the United Nations’ migration agency has warned that tightening borders while cutting development aid could ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than ...

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

President Donald Trump on Monday will sign an executive order terminating U.S. sanctions on Syria, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

“The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.The post Third-century queen, target of Syrian ...

The World Bank’s board of executive directors has sanctioned a grant to strengthen Syria’s electricity recovery project.