With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival. Four years of conflict have decimated the state coffers. Now the government’s only...

ISIS claimed responsibility Friday for bombings outside two heavily fortified five-star hotels in the Iraqi capital that killed 15 people. In a statement, ISIS said a suicide bomber called Abu Qutaiba had parked a car outside the Ishtar hotel in central Baghdad late on Thursday before...

The European Union imposed sanctions on a senior Syrian military intelligence official Friday, adding him to a list of more than 200 Syrians subject to an EU asset freeze. General Mohammad al-Mahalla has been head of the internal affairs branch of Syrian Military Intelligence since April,...

Yemen's Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, under fire from a Saudi-led coalition, have killed the capital's governor in clashes that erupted during an attempt to detain him, his relatives said Friday. Abdulghani Jamil and his nephew Nasr Jamil "died of wounds sustained during late Thursday...