Anastasia Moran is the former associate director for advocacy at the Rescue Committee, where she led the group’s advocacy with the U.S. government and the World Bank. She previously served as the U.S.

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour ...

Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, according to a document seen by ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host countries and donors to secure the return of 6.2 million Syrian refugees to ...

International commercial flights have resumed at Damascus International Airport for the first time since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.

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.

Assad's repressive regime in Syria, troves of secret government intelligence files were discovered. They reveal a vast system of citizens spying and informing on each other.

In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face could be an informer. “See those ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...

First is to stop acting like an absentee hegemon. When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, no one was particularly interested in how Russia, China or the European Union would respond. Like it or not ...

When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, merchants like Youssef Rajab kept much of their imported stock hidden for fear of arrest ...