Alawites, from a branch of Shiite Islam, have an acute fear of reprisals because of their connection to the Assad clan, which recruited from and favored its own religious community for military and ...

Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza despite widespread international rejection ...

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them ...

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives ...

A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of ...

Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

The Defense Department is working on a plan to remove all U.S. troops from Syria with NBC reporting that the Pentagon is ...

Syria's embassy to Stockholm says Syrians were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish ...

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One U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military ...