The European Council on Monday sanctioned nine individuals under the new regime of restrictive measures against use and proliferation of chemical weapons. In a statement, the European Council said the sanctions have been imposed on head and deputy head of the Russian military intelligence...

Russia deployed some of its best air defenses to Syria to keep US missiles and jets at bay as the US military's immense air and naval power fought ISIS in close proximity — but the supposedly airtight defenses are routinely defeated by Israel. In February 2017, a Syrian-manned...

A total of 6,964 civilians were killed in Syria in 2018, a rights group said. In a report released on Jan. 12, the London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Bashar al-Assad regime forces were responsible for 4,162 of these civilian deaths, including 713 children and 562...

In a world where climate change, air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, ozone depletion, and other environmental problems overlap, a fix in one arena can cause trouble in another. Here are a few examples of what might be called Earth's "zero-sum" dilemma in the 21st...