If agreed, the US-brokered security pact could bolster Israel’s influence, constrain Syria’s sovereignty, and complicate ...

American and Iraqi forces took out ISIS’s external operations planner, who helped plan the 2013 embassy bombing in Lebanon.

The 51-page report, “‘Are you Alawi?’ Identity-Based Killings During Syria’s Transition,” documents widespread abuses by ...

Barrack, in contrast, has pushed for the SDF to honour a 10 March agreement signed between Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

In the scramble to rewrite Syria’s future, it is perhaps no surprise that the classroom would lay bare cracks in the country’s fragile unity. Widespread outcry followed an announcement that Syria’s ...

Bedouin fighters arrive on the outskirts of Sweida city, during clashes between the Bedouin clans and Druze militias in southern Syria on July 18, 2025. (Ghaith Alsayed / Associated Press) More than a ...

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Attack on Hamas leaders in Qatari capital Doha shows Israel will keep escalating if global powers don’t stop it.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving the president a potential ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Poor infrastructure, regional conflict and sporadic Israeli airstrikes are holding back more airlines from returning to Syria, industry officials told Reuters, hampering efforts to ...