In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

The transitional government’s troops carried out mop-up operations in the settlements of Akkum, Bizaah, Haveiq, El Jurud and El Fadiliyah, where armed gangs are active ...

Armed clashes erupted Thursday in the Syrian-Lebanese border region between the Zoaiter and Jaafar Lebanese clans and fighters from Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which consist the core of Syria’s new ...

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

The horrific war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza and beyond has severely affected West Asia, fuelling profound instability and bringing barely-recessed ethnic divisions to the fore with a renewed ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso.

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...