Qatar has called for an immediate de-escalation in Syria and for reaching a comprehensive political settlement to the ...

Syrian civil war reignites as Islamist militants make significant territorial gains, challenging Assad regime's control.

With Syrian rebels only 50 miles away, Russia has evacuated all its warships from Tartus, its only naval base in the ...

Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after ...

Syrian forces are battling insurgents just north of the strategic central city of Hama where they are attempting to advance ...

The language of Middle Eastern politics can be frustrating, when one realizes, for example, that a ceasefire does not mean ...

Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance ...

Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey and Jordan — and Lebanon, ...

Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, is a woman of strong views, vigorously expressed.

Iranian foreign minister has said that the country is ready to send troops to Syria and is awaiting official request from ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...