The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved resolutions Wednesday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and expressing support for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees that Israel has ...

Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

Attacks on several towns come as officials from countries including the US, France meet with Lebanon official in Beirut.

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into today, hitting a home where displaced people were sheltering in the isolated north and a built-up refugee camp. At least 29 people were killed ...

One of the strikes hit a home where displaced people were sheltering in the isolated north, killing 19. That strike occurred ...

After 24 years in power, 13 with his country in a state of civil war, the government of Syria’s Bashar al Assad has collapsed ...

Pictures show rebel fighters standing next to the burning gravesite of Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ...

The president-elect claimed Russia is in a "weakened state" due to the Ukraine conflict and urged Putin to negotiate.

Israeli strikes pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday, hitting a home where displaced people were sheltering in ...

Incoming Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday he has a “vote of no ...

Colin Jost and Michael Che tackled the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on "Saturday Night Live," leaving some ...