A record-high survey result reflects how the war in Ukraine and regional tensions have reshaped Japan’s once cautious ...

The failure to support the U.S.-backed militia could create an opening for Islamic State, White House allies say.

The security handover of prisons and detention camps from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the authorities in Damascus took place amid total confusion, allowing several dozen ...

Washington is betting on the new Syrian government to unify the country by force.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is poised to dismantle Kurdish-led armed forces without objections from the Trump administration.

In recent days, the US-backed, largely Kurdish-populated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - which was at the forefront of the ...

Anas — a pseudonym for a Syrian man in his late twenties — still recalls five days of anxiety he endured earlier this month after several Syrian refugees were dismissed from their jobs in the ...

The White House had long backed the SDF in Syria, but US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said last week that the role of ...

Northeast Syria, for long the most stable corner of the country, has been plunged into turmoil following a military campaign ...

What do these developments mean for the country’s political transition? This briefing featured Charles Lister, Senior Fellow ...

In recent days, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) began taking a highly consequential step: evacuating thousands of Islamic State fighters from prisons in northeastern Syria and transferring them to ...

ISIS reportedly grows to 10,000 fighters as U.S. transfers detainees from Syria to Iraq amid Kurdish security collapse and ...