U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to move Gazans to Jordan and Egypt, if implemented, could upend any prospects of a two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan is ...

Donald Trump’s pick to oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a $100 billion spy budget is facing renewed scrutiny over an ...

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Having sided with Bashar al-Assad while a member of the Democratic Party, the former congresswoman's hard-right turn and ...

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

SHOCKING pictures have revealed Bashar al-Assad's trove of luxury vehicles worth millions of dollars in the fallen dictator's Presidential Palace in Damascus. The high-end collection features a ...

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United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad ... on Syria under Assad's rule. "I... call for an urgent ...

“Revenge and vengeance are never the answer,” Türk said, a month after the Assad family’s decadeslong dynasty ended when insurgent groups captured Damascus. Türk said he met with Ahmad al ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...