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 ...

Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

The transport route around the southern tip of Africa was once little used — but freighters are now forced to take it and are ...

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

A new global risk map has revealed the world's most dangerous, war-torn cities where travelers will be in jeopardy should ...

Despite escalating tensions in the region and continued fighting in Yemen, a political solution for peace in the country is still possible but ...

A divided Syria would suit many of the powers around us plotting to take advantage of the fall of Assad. Our destiny can be ...

In Monday evening’s conversation, she explained the social situation on the ground in Israel since the October 2023  Hamas ...

The rebel groups and foreign powers contending to shape the country’s future.

There are reports the Turkish-backed rebels are now advancing on Kobani, an important Kurdish-majority town on Turkey’s ...

The Assad regime suddenly and dramatically fell Sunday after 13 years of brutal war. Here's a brief background.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose name means Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, was the main rebel group leading the ...