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

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 ...

After 5 decades of Assad rule, Syrian rebels led by HTS captured Damascus, ending the 13-year civil war. Read more on The ...

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

Following its new attacks on Syria, Israel’s leaders and much of its media tout the creation of a new Middle East.

Russia first fired the Oreshnik missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on 21 November, in what President Vladimir Putin cast as a response to Ukraine’s first use of US ATACMs ballistic missiles and ...

Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy record. The Republican president-elect frequently casts the ...

When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

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

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has struck a serious blow to Iran’s Axis of Resistance. But weak governments in Lebanon ...

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