The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had been unable to determine whether banned toxic agents had been used in attacks on two Syrian towns in 2016 and 2018 that injured dozens of people. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said that sample...

On September 30, 2015, the Russian Federation formally entered the Syrian civil war as President Bashar al-Assad’s rule was increasingly under threat. Since 2011, intense fighting and mass desertion had weakened the Syrian Arab Army. Even the support of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

Iran’s currency dropped Thursday to its lowest value ever at 300,000 rial for each dollar amid severe US sanctions against the country. The rial has tumbled from a rate of around 262,000 in mid-September, a 12 percent drop. Iran’s currency was at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the...

The US President Donald Trump signed early Thursday a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and keep it running into December.  The bill, which passed the US Senate earlier with 84-10 vote, will keep the government agencies funded at the 2020 fiscal year levels through...