Syria

From June 16 to June 23, Americans participating in the challenge will be living off "ration packs" of rice, lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans and canned sardines in support of refugees.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, works with Angelina Jolie's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative.

President Donald Trump frequently reminds us that "all options are on the table" in enforcing U.S. policy, could that lead to war in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Ukraine or Venezuela?

El Shafee Elsheikh is one of three remaining members of the group that killed U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

Syria and North Korea teamed up to build a nuclear reactor designed to look like an ancient fort in the Syrian desert. How would the world look if Israel hadn’t taken action?

The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to present plans to send 10,000 more troops to the region.

Iran ultimately “intended to achieve absolute security, defined as the ability to thwart its adversaries’ ability to overturn its regime or invade Iran militarily,” according to a new report.

“Work is underway, and I think the result will be there soon,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov.

Regime airstrikes have pounded Syria’s Idlib province, with clashes reported between government and rebel ground forces.

Russia and its Syrian ally have escalated their campaign against insurgent-held Idlib at a time when the U.S. was preoccupied with threatening new wars against Iran and Venezuela.

A safe zone is completely unnecessary for U.S. national security, and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict is not ours to solve.

Trump said Putin was "not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela, other than he’d like to see something positive happen."

A review of persecution of Christians across the world finds alarming evidence that extremists are getting closer to eradicating Christianity in some areas.

Syria, itself the target of U.S. intervention, warned, “The failure of the coup attempt represents a strong blow to the American administration and an abject failure for its policies.”

“The battle of Baghouz is finished, but it demonstrated the barbarity and savagery of the crusader community towards the Muslim community,” ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared to say on tape.

President Donald Trump was set to leave the Arms Trade Treaty, but the U.S. has reportedly acted above international law for years in murky weapons sales around the world.

Russia is growing impatient with the persistent presence of jihadis in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province.

Russia warned of tensions spilling over across regions such as Asia and Africa and warned that a U.S. failure to repair collapsing arms control treaties could destabilize global security.

Russia was set to extend its reach on Syria’s west coast by leasing a Mediterranean seaport in Tartus, but China and Iran have also set their sights on the region’s lucrative trade routes.

Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey were set to meet in what would be a rare display of unity at a time when conflicts, competing interests and foreign influence had left it deeply divided.

“After the war with Islamic State people were looking for the right path, and distancing themselves from Islam,” said Omar Firas, the founder of the church.

The general staff of the Iranian armed forces warned it would treat all forces forces enlisted with Centcom, the U.S. central command, as "terrorists."

The presence of Russian, Chinese and Iranian planes in Venezuela has outraged the U.S at a time when it was looking to unseat the socialist-led Latin American country's leader.

Russia doubts a U.S. report alleging that Iran was behind the deaths of 608 U.S. troops in Iraq and pointed to the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed since the 2003 invasion.

Syria and Venezuela said they faced the same enemy, as Russia supports them in the face of U.S.-led regime-change efforts.

"The Syrian Arab Golan is ours and will return to us," Damascus's envoy to the United Nations said just hours after Israel reportedly bombed Aleppo.

After Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun followed up talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with a trip to Russia, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said the U.S. visit will “be eventually forgotten.”

The U.S. envoy to Syria said that "any government has the sovereign right to determine whether it wants foreign troops on its territory," but history repeatedly shows otherwise.

“This will have negative effects on the Middle East peace process and security and stability in the region,” the kingdom said in an official statement.

Egypt and Jordan were among the Arab states to condemn U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli. They were joined by Turkey and Iran in the region, as well as France, Germany, Russia and the U.K. abroad.