Syria's National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced it to close and months after the government recaptured all rebel areas near the capital. Only part of the museum, and its collection drawn from the...

Daesh (ISIS) has ousted a U.S.-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces from its holdout in eastern Syria, killing dozens of fighters, an activist group said Sunday. A Syrian Democratic Forces commander, asking not to be named, confirmed the SDF retreat from the Hajin pocket near the...

Ahmed Hassan is only a few months old, but his emaciated frame twitches as he cries in pain when Yemeni doctors gently place him on a scale. He is starving. In the next room, nurses make baby formula by the pitcher, filling syringes to ration a portion for each malnourished child who...

 The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi “undermines regional stability” and the U.S. State Department plans to take further action in response to the killing, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday at an international conference in the Middle East. Mattis never...