Joby Warrick

A U.S.-led sanctions campaign aimed to force Syria’s brutal leaders to step aside. A multibillion-dollar illicit drug industry arose to preserve their grip on power.

Hundreds of new centrifuges would triple Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity at a deeply buried underground nuclear facility.

Intelligence officials say Tehran’s growing partnership with Moscow is strengthening the capabilities of both countries.

Six years after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord, Tehran is rapidly accumulating enriched uranium, some of it very close to weapons-grade.

The Gaza conflict has re-energized old fundraising networks with ties to militant Islamist groups and causes, including groups accused of raising money in the past for al-Qaeda, current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials say.

Momentum is building to hold Syrian officials accountable for the alleged use of sarin and other deadly chemicals against civilians.

Evidence gleaned since Oct. 7 shows Hamas terrorists prepared for a “second phase” of assaults amid hopes of inspiring violence in the West Bank and beyond.

Hamas is known to have acquired underwater drones and other novel weapons with Iran’s technology. It hasn’t used them – yet.

Iran is ‘broadly complicit’ in supporting Palestinian militants, but no evidence seen of a direct role in slaughter, officials say.

The Biden administration has pulled funding to DEEP VZN — a controversial program that sought to find and study 12,000 viruses in the wild.