US President Donald Trump’s letter to Iran’s clerical establishment “will soon be delivered to Tehran by an Arab country,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in televised remarks on Wednesday. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said last week that Tehran would not be...

The United States has welcomed Syria’s agreement to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into state institutions. Washington’s endorsement comes after the Syrian presidency and the US-backed SDF announced a deal granting the Syrian central government full control of...

The White House said on Tuesday recent attacks on religious minorities in Syria have raised significant concerns about whether Syria’s interim government is ready to include “a religiously and ethnically diverse population, and whether the interim authorities even have the legitimacy to do...

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging, and death, and personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his own battle with pneumonia. On Monday, they reported good news: Francis was no longer in imminent danger of...