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In 2020, McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, endorsed Joe Biden in his campaign to unseat Trump. Mr Biden later appointed her as US ambassador to a United Nations food agency. Jimmy McCain is not the ...

Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities ...

Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities ...

The director of the UN World Food Program warned that some governments resist calls to boost funds for urgent humanitarian ...

The director of the U.N. World Food Program says that some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian ...

WFP chief Cindy McCain called the incident "absolutely unacceptable", and ... “Targeted Israeli interventions in Lebanon, Syria and Iran have changed the strategic situation in the Middle East. We ...

Germany's top diplomat Annalena Baerbock and her French counterpart met members of Syria's rebel-formed transition government. The pair are the first EU diplomats to visit Syria since Bashar Assad ...

HTS itself is designated a terrorist organization by the United States. And there are fears that unresolved tensions between Syria’s ethnic and religious groups could impede Shara’s efforts to unify ...

Syria’s new government is facing backlash after announcing changes to the school curriculum, including introducing what some critics say is an Islamist slant to teaching. The changes, published ...

When the Syrian regime began to collapse, rebel forces took advantage of the vacuum in power and began to expand their area of operations beyond the 55km area. Fighters from the Turkish-backed ...