In recent months, American officials have raised the fate of Austin Tice in talks with Syria’s new leadership, led by its interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. The American citizen vanished in 2012 in a ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led anti-regime forces to oust Assad, was declared president for a transitional period in January.

Yemen’s border authorities announced on Thursday that they busted an attempt to smuggle over 1.5 million narcotic pills from the Houthi-held capital Sanaa to Saudi Arabia. Officials suspect that such ...