Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would agree to meet Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday after US President Donald Trump told him immediately to accept Putin’s proposal of direct talks. The Ukrainian leader had responded guardedly earlier on Sunday after the...

The Israeli army said Sunday it had repatriated the body of a soldier missing for more than four decades, after locating the remains in the “heart of Syria” during a special operation with the Mossad intelligence agency. Tzvika Feldman was one of three Israeli soldiers who went missing...

Corruption as an Integrated System Corruption in the Syrian oil sector is not limited to individual cases. Rather, it constitutes a system based on three pillars: information monopoly, alliances of influence, and the absence of accountability. Achieving reform requires dismantling these pillars...

A Qatari mission has begun searching for the remains of US hostages killed by ISIS in Syria a decade ago, two sources briefed on the mission said, reviving a longstanding effort to recover their bodies. ISIS, which controlled swathes of Syria and Iraq at the peak of its power from 2014 to...