Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...

The smuggling routes to the West Bank had two routes: the first passed through Syria to Jordan; the second route began in ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

World heritage is rarely exempt from war, as 2024 proved in the cases of Israel and its enemies in the Middle East, and ...

Associated Press journalists have been covering these conflicts since they began. Now, as 2024 ends and a new year begins, we ...

Still, it is in everyone’s interest that Syria succeed. Syrians do not want to endure further strife and devastation, and the ...

According to Oleg Ozerov, "imperialist powers have historically divided Syria and Lebanon along sectarian lines, planting slow-burning bombs and landmines that eventually exploded" ...

Israeli soldiers removed a small far-right group of Israeli civilians who had crossed into Lebanon, appearing to put up a ...

Syrians, who suffered from the atrocities committed by President Bashar Assad's regime for decades, have welcomed the mostly ...

(RNS) — At a time when most of the international news is full of gloom and doom, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria is a ...

For the first time since he fled the country he ruled with an iron fist and a willingness to kill his own people to hold power, Bashar al-Assad was heard from. In a statement from exile in Moscow, ...