The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Rabih, a man from Syria’s border town of Qusayr who asked to only share his first name, lost his home before escaping to ...

An interim government, dominated by hts, is meant to rule until March. One of its priorities is to persuade Western ...

The end of the Assad dictatorship opens the way, perhaps, to a more peaceful and stable Middle East. Will regional leaders ...

Much like Hezbollah miscalculated with its 15-month-long war of attrition against Israel, Yemen’s Houthi rebels risk being ...

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...

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Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa. By Neil MacFarquhar For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in ...

In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels’ advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics ...