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According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the attacks have left at least 40 people dead and over 30 others injured. Israeli forces carried out a series of air-strikes on Deir Ezzor province in Syria in…

As with the past eight U.S. presidents, much of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy was dominated by the broader Middle East. Despite talk of ending “forever wars” and pivoting to Asia, core national interests have…

A picture taken during a guided tour with the Russian army shows Syrian elite soldiers taking part in an instruction session with Russian military trainers, on September 24, 2019, at an army base in Yafour, some 30 kilometers west of…

While claims that Russia is playing a large role in reconciliation talks between the Palestinian movement Hamas and the Syrian regime may be overstated, Moscow could benefit in several ways if the two sides restore relations.  …

Militants backed by US and Turkey protest ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province, March 15, 2020. ©  REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi President Donald Trump’s policy in the Middle East delivered “clear results” and Joe Biden shouldn’t change…

Life in government-controlled areas worsens with queues outside bakeries and fuel stations as President al-Assad hangs on to power. Bashar al-Assad has withstood the threat posed by the decade-long war even as Syria faces…

Baghouz, a day after the Islamic State was declared defeated there in March 2019 Though many took Trump's triumphalist hyperbole on his administration's victory over the Islamic State group (IS) last year with a…

President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to include Israel in the U.S. military command structure for the Middle East, the Department of Defense (DOD) confirmed Friday, a major change meant to reflect an easing of tensions between…

Migrants from Eritrea, Egypt, Syria and Sudan, wait to be assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, after fleeing Libya on board a precarious wooden boat in the Mediterranean sea, about 177 kilometers (110 miles)…

BRUSSELS The European Union added on Friday Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad to its sanctions list. “As a Government Minister, shares responsibility for the Syria regime’s violent repression against the…