This war has created the best opportunity in decades for a wise statesman to use what one longtime Middle East negotiator ...

The US president should do two things to end the Israel-Iran war: he should give Israel bunker-buster bombs and back a ...

An opposition fighter steps on a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party.

As Turkish-linked commanders with dubious human rights records are commissioned as officers and appointed to top military ...

President Trump has a chance to create the best opportunity for stabilizing the Middle East in decades, if he is up to it.

Last week, a Syrian doctor's trial for torture ended in Frankfurt. The verdict marks a turning point. Following the fall of ...

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is finally free after Bashar al-Assad's fall, seeking justice and ...

Government faces scrutiny as church attack highlights ongoing threats to stability and safety for minorities in Syria.