Germany Says Sanctions Against Syrian War Crimes Suspects Must Stay But People Need Relief Germany is one of several countries that imposed sanctions on the Assad government over its brutal crackdown on dissent.
US Military Campaign Against Islamic State Ramps Up The U.S. military has waged a series of large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past...
Long Silenced by Fear, Syrians Now Speak About Rampant Torture Under Assad The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.
Protesters in Syria Demand Justice for Disappeared Activists and Accountability from All Factions Protesters in Syria held a sit-in demanding justice for four activists who were forcibly disappeared in 2013 and whose fate...
Syrian Soldiers Distance Themselves from Assad in Return for Promised Amnesty Some members of the defunct military told The Associated Press that they had joined Assad's forces because it meant a stable...
Cyprus Can Help Rid Syria of Chemical Weapons and Search for its Missing, Cypriot Top Diplomat Says Cyprus’ offer is grounded on its own past experience both with helping rid Syria of chemical weapons 11 years ago and its own...
It's Time for US Troops to Leave Syria "There are roughly 4,500 U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria today, and they represent a potentially significant strategic...
Turkey and Russia Engage in Delicate Maneuvers over Syria After Assad’s Downfall The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between...
Pentagon Reveals 2,000 US Troops Are in Syria – More than Double What Was Previously Reported In a surprise announcement, the Pentagon revealed that it has not been offering an accurate count of how many U.S. troops it...
After Assad's Fall, the Task of Unearthing the Dead from Syria's Mass Graves Is Just Beginning Tens of thousands of Syrians are believed to be buried in mass graves scattered around the country, victims of the security...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...