After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

The European Union imposed on Monday an asset freeze and a ban on travel to the EU on five people linked with toppled Syrian ...

As the Israeli campaign has reduced Iran to a shadow of its former self, the regime appears set to become the next North ...

During its war on Ukraine, Russia has leaned on North Korea for artillery shells and troops, and on Iran for drone technology. The payback for the two members of what George W. Bush once called the ...

Trump demands Iran's unconditional surrender, OpenAI wins Pentagon AI deal, and more. Welcome to Tuesday’s evening brief, June 17, 2025.

Tehran will look to region's proxies and other authoritarian 'Crink' states for backing in its war with Israel ...

Israel’s military strikes against Iran are broader than nuclear ­facilities, air defence and missile sites. Israel has also successfully targeted and killed potentially seven senior generals of the ...

South Korean presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo would ''proactively support" a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if elected, a key policy adviser said ...

Syria became a narco-state under Bashar al-Assad. The regime mass-produced the synthetic drug captagon. The business led the country to account for 80% of global production and brought in between ...

The delegation met with Assad al-Shaibani, Syria’s interim foreign minister, in Damascus to discuss bilateral cooperation—the first official visit by South Korean officials to Syria in 22 years.

An account bearing the name of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s son, Hafez Bashar al-Assad, has been suspended from X after describing the family’s final days in the country before the rebel ...

Vladimir Putin (right) and Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow in 2015. A former aide to Assad has alleged that Putin did not take Assad's calls before the fall of the regime.