Virtual currency bitcoin soared to an all-time high above $10,000 on Tuesday on major exchanges and digital currency indexes, including the widely followed Luxembourg-based trading platform BitStamp. Created in 2009, bitcoin uses encryption and a blockchain database that enables the...

Shaven-headed former jihadists filled a classroom in northern Syria as a Muslim cleric taught them a more moderate form of Islam than the version they had imposed in Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Their class was in a new rehabilitation center for Islamic State members set...

Media activists opposed to the Syrian government have documented much of the worst of the war in Syria. However, as President Bashar al-Assad regains control of opposition-held territory, these civilian journalists fear they will have no place in Syria’s future. “It’s not like I...

Syria's brutal six-year civil war may be slowly winding down, but the country is awash in weapons and an array of local militias and thousands of foreign forces – some of whom may never leave. Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has regained control over large swathes of Syria...