The risk is that the anti-Israel “axis of resistance” from Iran could be replaced by a new pro-Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood alliance led by Turkey’s president.

The toppling of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, who had strong ties to Iran and Hezbollah, has crippled Hezbollah's ability to bounce back by cutting off a vital weapons-smuggling route through ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

A hmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated ...

This is a rare moment in the Middle East. Opportunity outweighs risk, and shrewdly applied American power and influence could ...

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

Hamas confirmed for the first time on Thursday that Israeli killed the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike last year. Deif was one of the alleged ...

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have released five Thai and three Israeli hostages, handing them over to the Red ...

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was overthrown last month ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian health authorities say an Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank has killed at least ...