The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria's largest ...

When a red-decked cargo vessel was spotted earlier this year loading grain at a Russian-occupied port in Ukraine, few ...

Applicable EU sanctions and an outstanding arrest warrant cast doubt over Vladimir Putin's ability to fly to Budapest and ...

In December 2004, Jordan’s King Abdullah first warned the world of the emergence of a Sh’ia crescent that could destabilize ...

Trump and the U.S. should keep pressuring Maduro of Venezuela, but not use blunderbuss tactics that will backfire ...

Assad-era conspiracy led to the creation of a desert mass grave * Operation Move Earth moved thousands of bodies to Syrian desert * Drivers and diggers were sworn to secrecy and feared death By Maggie ...

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his ...

Selma Mhaoud, and Shaya Laughlin, and published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The Kyiv ...

New York Times reporters compiled a wide array of clues to uncover what happened to Bashar al-Assad’s key enforcers after the ...

Ten years after its intervention in Syria, Russia’s influence in the Middle East has sharply declined as U.S.-led diplomacy ...

M any american presidents try to ignore the Middle East. Barack Obama wanted to pivot to Asia; Joe Biden told advisers to ...