First statements by the new Belgian  Foreign Minister appear to be at odds with the general feeling that the new government ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

Laughter fills the Zawaya Art Gallery in downtown Damascus. A packed crowd is chuckling uproariously at Syria’s first ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority’s commission of prisoners’ affairs published Friday the names of 183 ...

Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to tell her he loved her one last time. He later died from gunshot wounds ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Syria’s interim government is undertaking a sweeping reform of the country’s shattered economy, including plans to lay off a third of public sector workers and privatize state-run enterprises that ...

One day after the announcement of Syria's new interim president, the former leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militia, Ahmad al-Sharaa, held his first presidential address to the nation. ...

In December 2024, a handful of rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted the brutal dictatorship that had ruled Syria for five decades and set up an interim administration. Now, foreign ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily. By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo Soon after Islamist rebels ...