The country is deeply divided along religious and ethnic lines, which makes continuing violence one likely scenario.

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 ...

The collapse of the Syrian state is one of the most consequential geopolitical events in the Mideast in decades.

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

SYRIA’S new regime has already backed down from confronting Israel despite a massive wave of airstrikes across the country.

Jordan will host a crisis summit on Syria over the weekend to be attended by top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Turkiye, the US ...

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

The incoming US president has vowed not to involve America in foreign conflicts, but Assad's dramatic fall has upended the ...

He is a retired Major General in the Israeli Air Force and served as the head of Israel’s Defense Intelligence from 2006 to ...

Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of Captagon have been ...

Assad's government in Syria and the subsequent transformation of the country into a "failed state" —a fragmented territory ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - (This Dec. 15 story has been corrected to say that Tice was taken captive in Daraya, not Aleppo, in paragraph 10) The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who ...