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Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world') Christmas day blessing inside the blessing hall of St. Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican Pope Francis on Friday called for…

The latest American sanctions against Damascus and the Middle East tour carried out by Joel Rayburn, US Special Envoy for Syria in the US State Department, delivered a strong message that a change in administration in Washington does not…

Khalifa Haftar threatened to use force against Turkish troops if Ankara doesn’t stop interfering in Libya. (File/AP) Haftar’s comments came in response to the Turkish parliament’s…

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011 (File pic/AFP) Israeli missile strikes on Syria killed at least six Iran-backed fighters on Friday, according to a UK-based…

Israeli jets flew very low over parts of Lebanon early Friday, terrifying residents on Christmas Eve, some of whom reported seeing missiles in the skies over Beirut. Minutes later, Syria's official news agency reported explosions in the…

In November, Russia gained a slice of somebody else’s country. It did this not through unidentified troops moving across a border, nor through hybrid warfare. Instead, it negotiated its capture in full view of, and without a single…

"In the debate about the future Biden foreign policy I’m seeing people self-identify as ‘progressive realists,’ ” Michael McFaul, ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama, wrote recently. This unfamiliar label, brandished…

BEIRUT (Reuters) - They gather in groups, wearing black, in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug. 4. Men, women and children from Christian and Muslim sects cradle portraits of their dead. Samia…

The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Asma Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and members of her immediate family for harming efforts to reach a political solution in the nearly decade-long civil…

The coronavirus is surging in a region of northern Syria struggling from the devastating effect of a near-decade of war. Hospital staff attend to a patient in the city of Manbij, northern Syria Northern Syria – The…