Israel's overture this week to Syria and Lebanon for a peace deal has sparked mixed reactions in both countries, where the ...

It is the Iranian leadership's almost pathological hatred for Israel, rather than the possession of nuclear weapons per se, ...

The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

The issue of the future work of the UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, whose mandate expires on August 31, is being discussed ...

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Thousands of Syrian refugees are going back to their homeland but conditions there remain extremely challenging ...

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...

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A busted portrait of a busted dictator: A photo of Bashar al-Assad in a facility formerly part of the Assad regime’s Political Security Branch on the outskirts of Hama, following the capture of the ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

"Putin might use this perceived distraction as an opportunity to obtain further territory," a retired U.S. Colonel told ...