The Trump administration's withdrawal of troops from Syria shifts some responsibility for countering ISIS to its partners and ...

Axis of Resistance militia Uli al-Baas explained to Newsweek why "the American presence has become weaker than before" in ...

It likely won't lead to the violence and humiliation of other botched departures, including from the same region in 2019 ...

Turkey’s concerns about the PKK led it to launch an invasion of Syria in 2016 to deprive Kurdish fighters of a quasi-state along its border. Two more military forays followed in 2018 and 2019.

Assad’s regime fell in December to Syrian rebels, ending his nearly 30 ... in the country and highlighted the success of the 2019 Trump-era ISIS defeat. The Trump administration said the ...

During his papacy, Pope Francis—who died April 21—tirelessly advocated for peace in the face of what he relentlessly decried ...

Francis leaves behind him a church still divided, but radically transformed. pope-francis-obit-dead-vatican-conclave ...

In this episode of “The Opinions,” the deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy talks to the columnist Lydia Polgreen about the ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...