It’s been four years since the conflict in Syria reached an uneasy stalemate. The country, which borders Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, had laid relatively dormant as the Middle East ...

CAIRO — Syrian President Bashar Assad’s staunchest allies, Russia and Iran, pledged unconditional support to his government Monday, sending warplanes and voicing diplomatic support as his ...

No information was immediately available about the exact nature of the terrorist threat or who specifically might be targeted ...

Iran relies on a network of paramilitary groups across the Middle East, but that network’s influence has greatly diminished ...

Violence in Syria's Druze province has triggered Israeli military action, complicating relations with Turkey and creating a ...

That’s how it was formed in this revolutionary context and then after the Iran-Iraq War. ... And there were tensions in Syria. Russia and Iran had competing interests.

HE WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of Hizbullah, is still plastered on posters all over Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Alongside ...

It had reached out even before the regime change in 2021 as Taliban is seen as the most capable force countering the dreaded ISIS-KP. Also, it’s promised not to allow anyone to use its soil to target ...

More than 22 people were killed and another nearly 60 were injured when an Islamic State suicide bomber attacked a church in the Syrian capital of Damascus, officials said.

When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long ...