It feels like a disturbing dream, hard to believe. While global attention is fixed on Ukraine, Gaza, and Tehran, other crisis zones seem to ...

Sectarian-tinged clashes left hundreds dead and attracted Israeli military intervention. A U.S. envoy said Israel and Syria ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.

Colonial borders still shape today’s global conflicts. Drawn without consent, these lines continue to fuel wars, identity ...

Somaliland is offering the U.S. use of a strategic Horn of Africa port in exchange for recognition of its statehood. In ...

The sheikhs in Hebron have pre-empted Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas by pursuing peace with Israel, while putting a nail in ...

Travel Warnings Israel joins countries in the region that had long been on the list of those where all travel is advised against, including Iran itself, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Yemen.

On June 15, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) updated its advice to warn against all travel to Israel, placing the country on “red alert”, the same level as Iran. Both countries’ ...

ANBAR - Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi border authority said on Saturday, marking a key step in efforts ...

The Islamic State (IS) is reportedly trying to exploit the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime ...