Baldor has covered the Pentagon and national security issues for The Associated Press since 2005. She has reported from all over the world including warzones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...
The US president Donald Trump threatens Vladimir Putin with taxes, tariffs and sanctions over Ukraine war. A threat from Donald Trump to Russia - make a deal over Ukraine or face even fiercer ...
Syria's new leaders are recruiting a fledgling police force to replace Bashar al-Assad's feared, corrupted and now disbanded forces. But their focus on Islamic law and teachings as they recruit has ...
The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...
Anastasia Moran is the former associate director for advocacy at the Rescue Committee, where she led the group’s advocacy with the U.S. government and the World Bank. She previously served as the U.S.
The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour ...
Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, according to a document seen by ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called Thursday for cooperation between Syria's new authorities, host countries and donors to secure the return of 6.2 million Syrian refugees to ...
The year 2025 began with a shocking ISIS terrorist attack on the homeland when Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a truck with an Islamic State flag into a crowd, killing 15 people in New Orleans.
International commercial flights have resumed at Damascus International Airport for the first time since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.
After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the demilitarized buffer zone created in Syria after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.