(Time)- In the year since the nuclear deal, Iran's destabilizing presence has grown Just days before Christmas, as U.S. policymakers were settling into the holidays, Iran staged massive war drills, with one of its top military leaders even boasting that the Persian Gulf was within...

The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it will not send a delegation from Washington to attend Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital next week due to immediate demands of the transition. The State Department's acting spokesman Mark Toner said U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan, George...

(New York Times)- Nisreen al-Najjar thought the worst was behind her family when it fled to Jordan from war-torn Homs in Syria. Then, two years later, though safe from the shelling and the Syrian civil war, her son Hisham, who was 5, began to rapidly lose weight. When Ms. Najjar...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces took ground from ISIS near the besieged T4 military air base after major attack launched on Friday in the eastern countryside of Homs province, activists said. Backed by heavy aerial bombing and National defense militia, the Assad forces controlled...