The United States and Iran begin high-stakes talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Muscat on Saturday, with President Donald Trump threatening military action should they fail to produce a new deal. These will be the highest-level discussions between the foes since an international...

Between 2012 and 2014, the National Defense Militia in Damascus, led by Fadi Saqr, arrested dozens of children on charges of financing terrorism. The goal was to blackmail their families. The wealthy were exploited and forced to pay ransoms, while the children of the poor were tortured and...

The Syrian community in Iraq mourned the death of Fajr Imad al-Quntar, 21, who passed away on Friday afternoon in the Diyala region, northeast of the capital, Baghdad, just hours before he was scheduled to return to Syria. The local Suwayda 24 website quoted a source close to the deceased's...

A document dated August 17, 2016, revealed details of an expanded security and military meeting held in the office of the then-Security Officer of the Republican Guard, Brigadier General Qais al-Farawi. The meeting aimed to develop a mechanism and operational plan for the siege of the towns...