Syrian government forces launched a counterattack against Islamist-led rebels around the key city of Hama on Wednesday after ...

Syria said Wednesday its counteroffensive has pushed back insurgents attempting to advance to the strategic central city of ...

The language of Middle Eastern politics can be frustrating, when one realizes, for example, that a ceasefire does not mean ...

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

Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey and Jordan — and Lebanon, ...

Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies, is a woman of strong views, vigorously expressed.

Iranian foreign minister has said that the country is ready to send troops to Syria and is awaiting official request from ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...

Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on ...

The United States and Russia engaged in a heated exchange at the UNSC meeting over intensifying escalation in Syria. Both ...

Losing a Cabinet nominee to the confirmation process isn’t unheard of for incoming presidents — including for Donald Trump ...