The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Al-Shaar is the latest Assad-era to senior official to fall in the hands of the new interim government, who are seeking to ...

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 ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

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

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

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria was truly a turning point for Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” in the Middle East. For over a decade, the Assad regime benefited from longtime allies ...

In Lebanon, an Israeli strike wounded 7 people in Nabatieh on ... Bogdanov is heading Russia's delegation to Damascus for the ...

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, ...