The discussions in Ankara will include establishing Turkish airbases in central Syria and training for Syria's new army.

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

Syria’s newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for his first foreign trip since ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

Economic shock therapy: plans include privatizations and slashing public sector jobs Reforms designed to avoid chaos of ...

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 ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) has finally found a war he doesn't like. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night, ...

Syria's electricity sector, long plagued by a cascade of crises – from war-torn infrastructure and fuel shortages, to ...

He had spent the day with the leaders of Syria’s myriad armed factions, trying to persuade them to disband. Over seven weeks ...

The families of hostages freed from Gaza over the weekend described difficult conditions — including rarely seeing the sun — ...