BEIRUT: As dozens of heads of state convene for the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, the lingering conflict in Syria is taking a back seat...
BEIRUT: When Abdel-Hamid al-Youssef lost his 9-month-old twins in the poison gas attack that hit the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in April 2017, the world...
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s combative president is threatening to launch a military operation in northeastern Syria that is designed to push back U.S.-allied Syrian...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government’s move this week to place Iranian-backed militias under the command of the armed forces is a political gamble by a prime...
BEIRUT: Daesh (ISIS) has lost all the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, but its shadowy leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” is still at large....
BEIRUT: He may have fallen from grace internationally as one of the auto industry’s most powerful leaders, but Carlos Ghosn can count on continued...
BEIRUT: The son of Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader designated by the U.S. State Department this week as a “global terrorist” is a poet and music...
DAMASCUS: In a Damascus hospital, Haidar Hussein lifts himself up, holding on to a set of bars as he cautiously steps forward, showing off his new skills...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Even as Russia pushes to repatriate Syrians who fled their country amid civil war, many of the refugees in Jordan said Thursday they will not...
BEIRUT: When President Donald Trump meets Russia’s Vladimir Putin Monday, the Syrian conflict will be one of the most immediately pressing issues on a...
BEIRUT: The Western airstrikes targeting suspected Syrian chemical weapons facilities might have sent punishment from the sky, but they won’t fundamentally...
BEIRUT: With the Middle East on edge and many fearing inadvertent triggering of a regional war, it’s easy to forget that not so long ago President Donald...
BEIRUT: At a news conference announcing the end of yet another fruitless round of peace talks in Geneva last week, the U.N. envoy for Syria held up a...
BEIRUT: Muslims across the Middle East warned Wednesday of disastrous consequences as President Donald Trump recognized occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s...
BEIRUT: Syria’s long-running civil war may be winding down slowly, but the country is awash in weapons and a confounding array of local militias and...
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: Israeli warplanes struck a military position near the Mediterranean coast in western Syria Thursday, killing two soldiers, the Syrian army said, in a...
BEIRUT: As the U.S.-led coalition tightens the noose around Daesh (ISIS) in Syria, President Bashar Assad’s Iranian-backed troops are also seizing back...
Damascus: In Syria’s capital these days, people are breathing a little easier. Across Damascus, new shops are sprouting up, business is brisk, and some...
BEIRUT: As the U.S.-led coalition ratchets up operations in Syria, there are concerns that it will result in a rerun of what happened in Iraq, where $1...
ZABADANI, Syria: Arriving with her husband and 10-year-old daughter to check on their home for the first time in five years, Adibeh Ghosn had trouble...
BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad took an enormous gamble if his forces were behind the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens in northern Syria: committing...
BAGHDAD: Daesh (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda-linked militants are quickly moving to drum up outrage over a sharp spike in civilian casualties said to have been caused...
BEIRUT: Rolling around 200 Marines backed with howitzers into northern Syria, the United States is shifting from working quietly behind the scenes in Syria’s...
BEIRUT: The Syrian government’s expected recapture of Aleppo after a prolonged and punishing air assault is a defining moment in the country’s devastating...