The future of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has become a hot topic of debate, after the Israel Defense Forces pushed ...

In the past week, the Pentagon has acknowledged that its footprint in Iraq and Syria is bigger than it has claimed for years ...

Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...

Despite her pleasant air and sense of fashion, the now former Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad was bound to be tied to her husband's fate. Born and raised in the UK, she was respected by some for ...

The president-elect’s call to retake the Panama Canal has an irredentist, 19th century flare.

The transfer marks the end of an era when Russia played an arguably oversized role in determining which countries could ...

Soldiers of the former Assad regime are surrendering their weapons to the new government.

Two Syrian doctors and a nurse told AFP in a series of interviews over the weekend that Bashar al-Assad's government coerced them into providing false testimony to international investigators after a ...

The spies, who concealed their identity in the interview, said they tricked Hezbollah in buying pagers from Israel, and that ...

The Russian government is denying reports that Syrian President Bashar Assad's wife, Asma Assad, is seeking to divorce her deposed dictator husband.

As we wrap up the year, we looked into the development and humanitarian priorities of the world’s largest official donors.

The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities committed under ...