More regional connections mean lower costs, greater economic equity, and less vulnerability to supply chain disruptions —outcomes of enormous importance to US national security in a multi-polar world ...

Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach has died at age 82. He served 30 years as a politician from eastern Iowa. He later headed the National Endowment for the Humanities.

An Islamic State suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday killed a Taliban minister who was a senior member of the notorious ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech Wednesday that the U.S. and Israel were behind the fall of former President Bashar Assad.

President-elect Donald Trump has filled the key posts for his second term in office, prioritizing loyalty after feeling ...

A judge sentenced a man to two-and-a-half to six years in prison for leaving the scene of a crash that left one man dead and two others injured.

An Iraqi woman, who was treated at Shriners Children’s Greenville more than a decade ago, returned to the hospital to meet with the medical team who cared for her.

Many Syrians remain apprehensive about how religious minorities, including Christians, will be treated in a new political ...

U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan, an Iraq war veteran, said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s selection to run the U.S. Defense Department is unfit to do so and unqualified too. Ryan, ...

Gen. Mazlum Kobani, commander of Kurdish forces in Syria, said recent decisions by the U.S. in Syria potentially “leaves a ...

After the routing by Israel of Hamas and Hizbullah, its two main proxies in the region, the fall of Mr Assad, its third, is a ...

With Trump’s unconventional approach to governance and his tendency to appoint loyalists, there are grave concerns about the qualifications and ideological leanings of his prospective cabinet members.