Sen. Josh Hawley lamented the state of Tulsi Gabbard's nomination on Thursday night after her Senate confirmation hearing ...

President Trump's nominee to be top US spy, Tulsi Gabbard, and pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, face tough Senate hearings.

Gabbard replied that she had only meant to highlight the “egregiously illegal and unconstitutional programs” that Snowden had ...

President Donald Trump’s new administration is looking ahead to key Senate hearings this week for three of his most ...

That she’s soft on Russia isn’t even the biggest problem with her DNI nomination.

The summer home of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad was once off-limits to ordinary Syrians. Now people are lining up to visit ...

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United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was "crucial" for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad ... on Syria under Assad's rule. "I... call for an urgent ...

“Revenge and vengeance are never the answer,” Türk said, a month after the Assad family’s decadeslong dynasty ended when insurgent groups captured Damascus. Türk said he met with Ahmad al ...

For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is ...