In November 2017, after a lengthy meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump boasted that he and Xi can solve “probably all” the world’s problems. Today, he believes he alone can solve ...

Lebanon's Sunni leader and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who suspended his political activity more than three years ago, ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Moves by President Donald Trump's administration to cut U.S. foreign aid funding risk destabilising two camps in northeastern ...

In a desolate area of Syria where Lebanese militant group Hezbollah once held sway, security forces shot open the gates to an abandoned building and found a defunct drug factory. Syria's new ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Or is every bomb dropped, every missile launched, every bullet fired at children by Israel’s snipers, every threat to commit ...

For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

Denmark, Finland and Singapore have been ranked as the least corrupt countries in the world, amid a major rise in global ...

Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

Eleven people are dead after a rampaging gunman opened fire at an adult education centre in central Sweden, in what has been dubbed the country’s worst ever mass shooting. Armed police were scrambled ...