The United Nations says it has suspended its humanitarian operations in the stronghold of Yemen's Houthi rebels after they detained eight more U.N. staffers. In a statement Monday, the U.N. said the ...

The U.N. suspends humanitarian operations in the stronghold of Yemen's Houthi rebels after more staffers are detained.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

IT was a preliminary statement, but it couldn’t have been clearer.

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The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Alice Nderitu sought to make forgotten conflicts in the world a topic of discussion and action, but everyone wanted her to focus on what she wouldn’t call a genocide in ...

Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its ...

Here’s what mattered when an Irish American Muslim and a Black American Christian with a Muslim name met on a stage in ...