The militia is still a force in Lebanese politics, but its ability to menace abroad has been severely weakened ...

Palestinians are eagerly awaiting the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s lifeline to the outside world.

A resident of Kobane said, “We are in a dire condition. We are melting snow through fire, but we do not have [enough] fire to melt the snow with." ...

Iran’s top prosecutor called Donald Trump’s claims about halting the hangings of 800 detained protesters “completely false.” ...

At least 132,000 tons of US Navy hardware is currently steaming toward the Middle East — including the nuclear-powered “Abe” ...

Diplomacy prides itself on nuance, yet there are moments when nuance collapses under the weight of geography. Israel's recognition of Somaliland was not a symbolic flourish; it was a geopolitical ...

The rapid turn of events has brought almost all of Syria back under the authority of the central Damascus-based state ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian ...

The Syrian government has seized swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Kurdish forces, consolidating President Ahmed ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Long vilified for opposing independence and barred from electoral politics for over a decade, Bangladesh's biggest Islamist ...