The government's surprise olive branch to the Kurds comes after rebels in neighbouring Syria overthrew strongman president ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent ...

From the largest war in Europe since World War II continuing in Ukraine to a series of escalations upending the Middle East, ...

North Korea suffering mass casualties, says US as Zelensky set for £1bn arms boost - South Korea, Ukraine and the US ...

Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients ...

Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...

The World Health Organization’s director-general said airstrikes on Yemen’s main airport occurred as he was about to board a flight in the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa ...

It was early December when Douna Haj Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, discovered the disturbing details of her husband's detention in ...

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at ...

Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.

Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: ...

Syria's new security forces checked IDs and searched cars in the central city of Homs on Thursday, a day after protests by ...