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Text to mom announcing death reveals 3rd Bataclan attacker

The third gunman who terrorized Paris' Bataclan concert hall before being killed last month in the attack was identified Wednesday as a Frenchman who left for Syria in 2013. The development came after his mother received a text message announcing his death and gave a DNA sample to...

Syria: The Need for Diplomacy and De-escalation

  (Council On Foreign Relations- Philip H. Gordon) Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria.  The war has left some 250,000 Syrians dead, seven million internally displaced, and three million forced to flee to...

Kerry to visit Moscow for talks on Syria

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he would head to Moscow next week to meet Russian leaders and try to build momentum for a push to end Syria's civil war. Washington and Moscow have worked together to bring a group of regional and world powers together to forge a framework for...