In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people...

The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed and several others wounded in a battle with Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Afghanistan. The military said in a statement that several Afghan forces were also wounded in the fighting on Wednesday in the Achin district of the Nangarhar...

Syrian opposition groups say Fadwa Suleiman, a Syrian actress who took center stage at anti-government protests in the early days of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, has died. She was 46. The Syrian National Coalition opposition group said Thursday that Suleiman passed away in...

Turkey's EU minister said on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comments about halting the expansion of a customs union between Ankara and the European Union harmed the credibility of the bloc. Merkel said on Wednesday there would be no expansion of the customs union and "no...