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DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was ...

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Recent years have seen deepening crises, reshaping power dynamics and even an ongoing genocide in the Middle East, with peace ...

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...

Close to midnight on March 6, as a wave of sectarian killings began in western Syria, masked men stormed the homes of Alawite ...

Benjamin Netanyahu keeps saying, We have succeeded in changing the face of the region. So, has the change happened, and what is next? </ ...

Syria’s interim government has reached an agreement to integrate the Druze-majority southern province of Sweida into state institutions, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. According to the ...

Syria plunges into renewed violence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, with over 1,000 deaths in two days due to sectarian clashes. The insurgent leader Ahmad al-Sharaa's forces are accused of ...

CAIRO – The Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria’s oil-rich north-east, signed a deal with the Damascus government on March 10 to join Syria ...

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The image of the two men meeting, having discarded their military uniforms and put on suits, illustrates how leaders can seize the moment and opt for peace over war. The leader of the Syrian ...