The world’s lawlessness was made visible in August 2013, when Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad used sarin gas to kill 1,400 people in a suburb of Damascus. Barack Obama had warned that chemical ...

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2025, pp. 29-31 Special Report By Ida Audeh SINCE THE BEGINNING of ...

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met in Damascus on Saturday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, marking the ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Anger has been steadily building against Syria's new rulers as senior Israeli officials tout a possible normalisation deal ...

A team of planetary scientists, ecologists, and marine biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in the U.K., has found evidence suggesting that parts of the world's ...

45 years ago, Iran waged its own preemptive strike on nuclear facilities The attack on Iraq’s facilities fell short and Israel finished the job months later.

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

The attack on Iraq’s facilities fell short and Israel finished the job months later.

Syria was once among the closest allies of the Islamic republic, but the new government resents Tehran’s support for the Assad regime and has pledged not to allow attacks on Israel from its ...

Examination of the cone-headed skull revealed diagnostic features that allowed the team to determine that the skeleton belonged to a young woman—likely less than 20 years old.