An effort to reduce growing strains on overcrowded prisons in Syria, some holding thousands of captured Islamic State fighters, is being met with cautious optimism in Washington, even though it involves letting hundreds of the terror group’s adherents walk free. The plan put into motion...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad moved Wednesday to exempt more low-wage earners from income tax, his office said, as the economy buckles under the weight of US sanctions and nearly a decade of war. The legislative decree, the first such amendment in years, widens the tranche of low-income...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc agreed to pay $4.14 million to settle civil allegations that a Turkish subsidiary committed “egregious” violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control...

Danica Marcos wants to be infected with COVID-19. While other people are wearing masks and staying home to avoid the disease, the 22-year-old Londoner has volunteered to contract the new coronavirus as part of a controversial study that hopes to speed development of a vaccine. Marcos...