Pentagon Reveals 2,000 US Troops Are in Syria – More than Double What Was Previously Reported In a surprise announcement, the Pentagon revealed that it has not been offering an accurate count of how many U.S. troops it...
After Assad's Fall, the Task of Unearthing the Dead from Syria's Mass Graves Is Just Beginning Tens of thousands of Syrians are believed to be buried in mass graves scattered around the country, victims of the security...
US Military Conducts More Airstrikes to Prevent Islamic State from Making Gains Amid Syria Turmoil While the campaign to quell the Islamic State has been ongoing for years, the military says the recent strikes have been...
Netanyahu Says Israeli Troops Will Occupy a Buffer Zone Inside Syria for the Foreseeable Future Israel seized a swath of southern Syria along the border with the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in the days after Syrian...
Russian Presence in Syria Remains. But It's Unclear for How Long Since Assad's departure, there have been no clashes between Russian troops and the former insurgents who have suddenly become...
EU Seeks Assurances from Syria's New Leaders in Exchange for Dropping Sanctions The EU's top diplomats said they want guarantees from members of Syria’s interim government that they are preparing for a...
One Week Into a New Syria, Rebels Aim for Normalcy and Syrians Vow Not to be Silent Again A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad.
US Officials Have Been in Direct Contact With the Syrian Rebel Group That Ousted Assad, Blinken Says Blinken was the first U.S. official to publicly confirm contacts between the Biden administration and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Here's What to Know About the US Push for Stability in Post-Assad Syria Blinken held meetings Jordan, Turkey and Iraq with the aim of trying to shape the future of post-Assad Syria by forging...
A Diminished Hezbollah is Made Even Weaker by the Toppling of Assad in Syria The Assad dynasty played a crucial role in empowering Hezbollah.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
