MASNAA, Lebanon: Lebanese exporters rejoiced last month when the Syrian government opened a key land crossing with Jordan that had been closed by years of...
ISTANBUL: Friends say Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a proud Arab who wanted to set up a base in his ancestral homeland of Turkey, contributing to the...
BEIRUT: The call came Saturday night. In the raging war zone that is southwestern Syria, with enemy forces on the march, 98 White Helmets volunteers brought...
WASHINGTON: U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Tired and aching with arthritis, Dahouk al-Omar lugs a purse stuffed with all her personal documents to the catering kitchen where she works...
AL-BAB, Syria: A newly paved road links the Turkish town of Elbeyli to its Syrian sister, Al-Bab, across the border. In Al-Bab, Turkish and Syrian flags line...
JARABLUS, Syria: Nearly 50 children orphaned by the Syrian war escaped the hell that was their hometown of Aleppo after they appeared in a distressing video...
AL-BAB, Syria: The family of seven is crammed into a single tent in a squalid and overcrowded camp for those who fled the fighting near the capital, Damascus....
QAMISHLI, Syria: The “Defense of the People” Court is an almost intimate place. Three judges – two men and a woman – sat behind a large desk. The defendant, a...
TAL ARBOUSH, Syria: The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colors of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the...
BEIRUT: After seven years of war in Syria, the United Nations has one thing to say: Stop the war on children. The numbers speak for themselves. Of...
BEIRUT: There have been many goodbyes in Eastern Ghouta – more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the estimated number of civilians killed in the Syrian...
BEIRUT: A rescue worker portrayed in a Syrian film nominated for an Academy Award is waiting in his war-torn country for a visa to the U.S. to attend what...
BEIRUT: One-month-old Heyim Hassan was receiving treatment for a chest infection in the Afrin general hospital in northern Syria when a shell landed a few...
BEIRUT: Syrian state-run media said Thursday a rare U.S. strike on government-backed troops in eastern Syria killed and wounded dozens of tribal fighters,...
BEIRUT: Lebanon is campaigning to get at least five times more women elected to Parliament this spring in its first vote in nearly 10 years, the...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia and his Saudi counterpart are caught in what appears to be a diplomatic tussle over representation, with each...
BEIRUT: With the fall of Daesh’s (ISIS) last significant stronghold in Syria, Iranian and Russian-backed Syrian troops now turn to face off with their main...
BEIRUT: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani criticized Saudi Arabia Wednesday over what he called "unprecedented" interference in Lebanese affairs...
PARIS: The forces fighting the remnants of Daesh (ISIS) in Syria have tacit instructions on dealing with the foreigners who joined the militant group by the...
BEIRUT: The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of Daesh (ISIS) in its self-declared capital of Raqqa, but the future is looking even more...
BEIRUT: Adnan Hassan, a Syrian Kurd, finally has hope for himself and his people. Two years ago, Daesh (ISIS) militants nearly wiped out his hometown, Kobani,...
BEIRUT: Hassan Youssef was 10 years old when a local Syrian composer discovered his talent: a deep powerful voice that was particularly resonant for...
BEIRUT: Syria’s civil war has been one of the modern world’s most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos...
BEIRUT: Only one health facility remains operational in the Daesh-held (ISIS) part of Raqqa, serving thousands of civilians trapped in the Syrian city with...