Bloodshed over the weekend highlighted the brittleness of the cease-fires in both places. Still, Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the armed groups in Syria should be merged into a single army and a single ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Syria gained independence in 1946 from a joint French and British occupation, but the subsequent political phase was unstable. In 1963, the Baath Party rose to power through a military coup. The 1967 ...

Three concentric circles of domestic, regional, and global actors compete for power and influence in Syria because of the ...

Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump ...

Any prolonged Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon could breathe new life into Hezbollah, a group that was founded to ...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government is facing the threat of losing its majority in parliament after four coalition lawmakers refused to vote until their demands are addressed.

Before University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student Gabi DalSanto was cleared to register for spring classes after being placed on a recent academic hold for defying school policy during ...

Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.

It is becoming apparent that negotiations between the new leadership in Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) face ...

The Syrian conflict highlights the devastating impact of foreign interventions, proxy wars, and ideological ambitions, ...