I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: The Center for ...

Damascus: A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed four people, a Damascus health ...

The fall of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad has created a power vacuum that threatens some of the United States' ...

New York, United States - January 08, 2025 More than 125,000 Syrian refugees who have recently returned to Syria are facing ...

With a nearly unanimous 99 out of 128 votes, the Lebanese parliament elected the head of the army, Gen. Joseph Aoun, as ...

1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

A senior U.S. diplomat in northern Syria, William V. Roebuck, in a memo, called it “a catastrophic sideshow” and “an ...

Israel’s military says it carried out new airstrikes in Yemen against what it said were Houthi rebel targets. Its statement ...

Israel’s army has confirmed that one of the bodies recovered from Gaza earlier this week was that of 23-year-old hostage ...

U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria's new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior ...

With the downfall of the old Syrian regime, countries like Germany which welcomed Syrian refugees are now talking about ...

President-elect Donald Trump should get tough on countries using chemical weapons in breach of agreed international ...