On the second day of his new term in office last week, President Donald Trump made a big splash by announcing Stargate, a new private joint venture that could have a major impact on AI innovation ...

It has been a point of pride for him, and it is true. In the first year of Trump’s first term, U.S. forces, working with Syrian Kurdish allies, defeated the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily. By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo Soon after Islamist rebels ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria The newly appointed president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, pledged in a speech on Thursday to create an inclusive transitional government that ...

Elon Musk challenges Stargate project’s funding: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has raised concerns over the financial viability of the Stargate AI project, a high-profile initiative which is ...

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmed al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...

President Donald Trump is hitting the ground running during his first full day back in the White House as he announces a $500 ...

Syria’s former governing party, the Baath, is no more. The party had ruled the country for decades until it was overthrown, along with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on December 8 ...

Elon Musk has joined the chorus of critics questioning the viability of Sam Altman’s ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project, agreeing with concerns raised by industry ...

The Stargate Project, as the venture is named, is a partnership between four notable companies: OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX. Its goal is to construct sites throughout the U.S. to develop ...