In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

Without meaningful steps from Tel Aviv, normalisation is a non-starter - but after years of war, Damascus cannot afford a ...

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

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

It’s too soon to discuss setting up new military bases in Syria, Ankara says but assured concrete steps are underway to help ...

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

Now Hezbollah is also at risk of losing the support of Lebanese Shiites, who make up its domestic base. As is usually the ...

JERUSALEM: Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Thursday (Feb 6) to prepare a plan to allow the "voluntary departure" of residents from Gaza, Israeli media said, after President Trump drew wi ...

Lazzarini said that while replaceable by a functioning public institution, UNRWA provides essential public services that no ...

President Trump said that the United States should take over Gaza and forcibly relocate two million Palestinians. Leaders in ...