Israel and Hamas reached a deal to resolve a disagreement over the exchange of a female civilian hostage that had threatened ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

The official language is Arabic, although French, English, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac are also used. The small country of Lebanon, with a population of about 6 million, has a complex and ethno ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel ...

which has a large Syrian Kurdish population. “It was meant to draw a line that this is something to be negotiated, and it’s not something to work out on the battlefield.” On January 2 ...

Hamas released eight hostages on Thursday — five Thai farm workers and three dual German-Israeli nationals — in exchange for ...

UNRWA has been the main agency procuring and distributing aid in the Gaza Strip, where almost the entire population of around ... Israel to pull troops out of Lebanon WASHINGTON — The Trump ...

The ceasefire is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas and ...

invasion of southern Lebanon, which was aimed at crippling the militant group Hezbollah. Meiss al-Jabal had a prewar population of about 8,000 and suffered some of the most severe destruction ...