"Alarming" numbers of migrants are reaching Libya to cross the Mediterranean, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, adding a warning that Italy must be ready for them to avoid new border chaos inside Europe.
'to go behind the sun' in Assad's Syria. Only one of Rabe Alkhdar's brothers came back alive from a Syrian prison. "My mother was wailing by that time," Rabe, a Syrian refugee now living in the US, recalled in an interview with Business Insider late
The drive to declassify 28 pages from a congressional intelligence inquiry that detail specific indications of foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers is about to be put under a powerful spotlight, as 60 Minutes will air a segment on the top
While the "war against ISIS" has been quietly pulled from the front pages in recent months (even as both Russia and the US continue to pile forces into Syria), having served its political purpose, it continues on the ground. As evidence we have the f
Interventionists always assume that a country is better off because of outside intervention than it would be without it, but I'm not sure why anyone not already committed to believing that would agree.
US Central Command intelligence analysts claim the military has punished them for coming to conclusions at odds with Pentagon leadership over the viability of US-backed rebel groups in Syria. Are we seeing the Iraq fiasco all over again?
US Central Command intelligence analysts claim the military has punished them for coming to conclusions at odds with Pentagon leadership over the viability of US-backed rebel groups in Syria. Are we seeing the Iraq fiasco all over again?
The first Syrian family to be resettled to the U.S. under its speeded-up "surge operation" departed to the United States Wednesday from the Jordanian capital, Amman.
It was ten years ago that the London Review of Books published an article on the Israel Lobby by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, distinguished scholars at two of America's top universities.
Two Syrian women worked with the Swedish news agency Expressen to secretly film what life is like in Raqqa, the Syrian city ISIS has claimed as its capital
At first, when it announced the terms of its "oil freeze" agreement with Russia one month ago, Saudi Arabia seemed willing to grant Iran a temporary exemption from the supply freeze, at least until it recovers its pre-embargo production levels.
The shaky debut last week of a new unity government in Libya brings Western nations, including the United States, much closer to a renewed military mission there, and to a host of obstacles that will test their ability to secure a country gripped by
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship stopped a massive Iranian arms shipment dead in its tracks, seizing thousands of weapons, AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers that likely were headed to Yemen, the Pentagon announced Monday
The biggest economic shake-up since the founding of Saudi Arabia would accelerate subsidy cuts and impose more levies, a plan to spread the burden of lower crude prices among a population more accustomed to government largess.
Saudi Arabia is getting ready for the twilight of the oil age by creating the world's largest sovereign wealth fund for the kingdom's most prized assets.
The Express reports, VLADIMIR Putin sent Russian mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and Syria in secret black ops missions he could deny any involvement in, a report has claimed.
A nonprofit with ties to Senator John McCain received a $1 million donation from the government of Saudi Arabia in 2014, according to documents filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Rising tensions in France, especially in Paris following a series of Islamist terrorist attacks in 2015, have spurred an exodus of its super-wealthy citizens, a new report on migration trends of millionaires and high-net worth individuals across the