DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe ...

As it became increasingly clear that Syrians were not imminently leaving Turkey, the Turkish government formalized the ...

The year 2024 saw these pressure points against Bashar al-Assad converging, signalling rebels to march ahead. The Arab Spring saw authoritarian regimes toppled in four countries: Tunisia (January 2011 ...

Iran is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, likely since its decadelong war with Iraq or even since the ...

Gaza today is unrecognizable. Much of it has been reduced to rubble by Israel’s onslaught and more than 46,000 people have been killed. Nine in ten residents have been displaced, forced into temporary ...

E ARLY IN 2019 a Lebanese-American businessman tried to bring a stunning piece of information to the attention of Tulsi ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

The past week marked a pivotal moment for Lebanon, as the long-standing presidential vacuum that underscored the nation’s ...

A pivotal moment in modern history occurred in 2011 when Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...