Author: Kim Hjelmgaard and Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY

U.S. and its alies’ policies toward President Bashar Assad’s Syria have stumbled from intervention and airstrikes to resignation and inattention.

Ukraine launches investigation into claims U.S. Amb. Marie Yovanovitch was placed under surveillance by people linked to President Donald Trump.

Iraq has been at the center of an intensifying tug of war between Tehran and Washington.

Tehran takes new actions to erode its commitment to the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers and acceleratesits nuclear activities.

Israel’s conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secureda record fifth term after a neck-and-neck finish in parliamentary elections.

Trumpadministration callsIran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group, the first time Washington has described a foreign military this way.

Their stories all share the same heart-wrenching core: an American gone missing in a foreign country, their families left feeling helpless

A bipartisan Senate resolution says Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s killing.