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 ...

Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance ...

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

Not to be outdone, also today, Islamist rebels “ made a statement from a mosque in Damascus, in footage aired by Channel 12 ...

By Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman Iran began to evacuate its military commanders and personnel from Syria on Friday ... Tunisia and Yemen, each of which brought civil war or authoritarian ...

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

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

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

Assad's fall from power has ended the Baath Party's and Assad dynasty's long rule over Syria. The Baath Party is secular, but ...

The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after Assad crushed pro-democracy protests, killing more than half ...

A new revision of the strategic map in the Middle East is on the cards with the downfall of Syria's Bashar Assad in a ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Middle East between the British and French, has led to an uneasy rumbling in the ...