Nancy A. Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world.

The U.S. military said on Thursday a blast on Sunday near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa was ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani raised his country’s new flag at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday where he ...

Buria started the year as the secretary’s junior military assistant, a post he took on last April for Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin. The role — abbreviated as “JMA” — is a ...

President Donald Trump said he supports Pete Hegseth amid the Department of Defense secretary’s latest controversy involving using the messaging app Signal. “He’s doing a great job,” Trump ...

The arrests marked a pendulum swing for the government. Under the Assad regime, Syria served as a base of operations for several Palestinian armed factions. By Euan Ward and Reham Mourshed Euan ...

Syria’s new president, the former rebel leader Ahmed al-Shara.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times In an interview with The New York Times, President Ahmed al-Shara urged the United ...

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Nearly four years after the failed Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate, our military is still picking up the pieces ...

In the months since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed, Israel’s military activity in Syria has grown increasingly aggressive. The Israel Defense Forces has seized the UN-monitored ...

A ship carrying wheat has arrived in Syria’s Latakia port, the first such delivery since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December, the government said, as it pushes to boost an ...