Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, faced tough questioning in her Senate confirmation hearing.

The story of my family’s flight to Lebanon and then Mexico more than half a century ago.

This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.

They are looking to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S. considers key allies against Islamic State and that Turkey regards as a national security threat.

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, inflation skyrocketed, pulling some 90% of the country into poverty.

“Jewish, Muslim. Christian, they’re all here.” So proclaimed a BBC journalist after the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. But the Jews are no longer there. My family fled for their lives ...