Middle East latest: Israel's Netanyahu says Trump invited him to Washington
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says U.S. President Donald Trump has invited him to visit the White House on Feb. 4. This will make Netanyahu the first foreign leader to visit Washington in ...
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Syrian Kurds agree to send joint committee to Damascus
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Mazloum Abdi, chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on Tuesday met with the Kurdish National ...
A Vatican Meeting Added to Scrutiny of Tulsi Gabbard’s Foreign Travels
Ms. Gabbard, President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was briefly subject to special scrutiny on ...
The discovery of brutal mass graves in Syria reveals Assad's legacy of horror
Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...
Tulsi Gabbard Faces a Skeptical Senate
A Senate committee will consider Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence after ...
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Russian diplomats make first Syria visit since Assad's fall
Moscow is anxious to maintain its strategically important military assets in the country, which hosts its only bases outside ...
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Russia’s hopes to keep Syria bases fade with talks stalled
Russia has used the two bases to try to rebuild its Cold War-era influence in the Middle East. Their loss would be a ...
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Will Iran and Russia’s Growing Partnership Go Nuclear?
Nicole Grajewski is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate ...
Russian Envoys Arrive in Syria for First Time Since al-Assad Fell
Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special presidential envoy for Syria arrived in Damascus on Tuesday, according to ...
How a contrarian MIT professor fueled Tulsi Gabbard’s doubt about Syrian gas attacks
Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence disregarded U.S. assessments of chemical weapons attacks and instead ...