The United States appears intent on keeping its counterterrorism alliance with the Kurds in post-Assad Syria despite the ...

General Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese army commander who was elected president on Thursday, kept his military on the sidelines of ...

A report by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-led Israeli government's Nagel Committee has warned that Israel must ...

Though Lebanon’s presidency is mostly symbolic, it has a few important powers, like approving prime ministers and cabinets.

Some of the global conflicts stemmed from the vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR. In what ways has the Russia-Ukraine ...

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by air strikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria ...

With Aleppo in ruins, the White Helmets are back, leading efforts to clear rubble, restore vital services, and rebuild a city ...

The ability to forge broad and diverse coalitions is a signature asset of democratic politics, and it is needed now more than ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading on Thursday to Rome for talks with European counterparts on bringing ...

Handcuffed and squatting on the floor, Abdullah Zahra saw smoke rising from his cellmate’s flesh as his torturers gave him ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The UN envoy to Syria warned the country's Islamist-led caretaker regime Wednesday against making mistakes that would imperil the political transition underway after decades of dictatorship under ...