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...

Syrian state media reported multiple Israeli airstrikes in the southern province of Daraa on Monday night. Since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria. “The Israeli occupation aircraft carried out several strikes...

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible, including his own allies if necessary. In his first interview to a global news...

The Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich northeast, has signed a deal agreeing to integrate into Syria’s new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday. The deal, which included a complete cessation of...