On June 30, 2025, as part of the process of normalizing relations with Damascus following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Trump administration overhauled the sanctions imposed ...

NEW YORK, March 18 (Reuters) - Syria on Wednesday launched a plan supported by Washington to rid the ‌Middle Eastern country of legacy chemical weapons that were used against its people by forces ...

International treaties including the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), Biological Weapons Convention (1975), Ottawa Treaty (1999), and Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) banned weapons like ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story… In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, ...