Beirut: Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of ...

A Syrian war monitor said that government forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Hama, pushing back Islamist-led ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...

The Israeli military says its aircraft struck Hezbollah weapons smuggling sites along Syria’s border with Lebanon ...

The Bank of Russia started operations on the currency market in connection with the use of resources from the National Wealth Fund ...

Brent crude futures rose 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $73.85 a barrel by 0700 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 19 cents, or 0.3%, to $70.13 ...

Syria state media say government troops are battling insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time ...

Israeli forces carried out several new drone and artillery strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday, including a deadly strike that the ...

Iraq will not act as a mere spectator in Syria where it believes groups and sects are victims of ethnic cleansing, Iraq's ...

The new head of the U.N. humanitarian aid agency says it will be “ruthless” when prioritizing how to spend money, a nod to ...