In a territory that, until recently, had been controlled by Hezbollah and was plagued by arms and drug smuggling, fighters ...

Violence at the Lebanon-Syria border between Lebanese clans and Syrian security forces escalated last week as the government ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Middle East expert Eva J. Koulouriotis states that Ankara has found common ground with the jihadist group HTS, which has taken control in Syria, particularly regarding the eastern Euphrates. According ...

Traffic at Jdeidet Yabous, the border crossing in western rural Damascus opposite Lebanon’s Al-Masnaa, has eased following new measures implemented on Tuesday by Syria’s General Authority for Land and ...

Lebanon's power-sharing system parcels out ... pledging reforms 3:39 PM UTC Middle Eastcategory Chemical weapons agency chief says Damascus meetings first step towards improved ties 3:31 PM ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, representative, and Islamist it may be. The country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Shara, ...

The United Nations refugee chief said Saturday that some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the government of Bashar Assad was ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 18 (Reuters ... His mother, Debra Tice, drove into the Syrian capital from Lebanon with Nizar Zakka, the head of Hostage Aid Worldwide, an organisation which is searching for ...

This is a rare moment in the Middle East. Opportunity outweighs risk, and shrewdly applied American power and influence could ...

His mother, Debra Tice, drove into the Syrian capital from Lebanon with Nizar Zakka ... while traveling through the Damascus suburb of Daraya. Reuters reported earlier that in 2013 Tice, a ...