If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of ...

As rebels make progress in their fight against Assad's government, Newsweek has mapped the regional approach to the conflict.

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and ...

The Israeli military said sirens were not sounded to warn of the incoming drone and there were no immediate reports of ...

The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad ...

The power vacuum left by the collapse of the brutal Assad dictatorship could now be exploited by local warlords and ambitious neighbouring states. Western governments must urgently gain agreement from ...