It was Sept. 4, and the war drums were sounding in Syria. The United States appeared to be on the verge of launching strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Family members of the country's economic and political elite fled to Beirut, looking to avoid the cruise missiles....

  The World Food Programme is ramping up its Syria operations in anticipation of greater demand from inside and outside the country, but lack of access is proving problematic, the U.N. group’s executive director told reporters Tuesday. “Most of my...

  Muslim scholars in Syria have put forward a project called “the strong structure” which aims to unite the Islamic factions on the ground besides organizing and monitoring them within one administrative and organizational framework based on up-to-date developments in...

Federal prosecutors have documented at least 350 instances of faulty background investigations done by private contractors and special agents for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in recent years, illustrating what some lawmakers call systemic weaknesses in the granting of federal...