The German and French foreign ministers are heading to Damascus to send what the German minister said is a clear signal that a “political new beginning” between Europe and Syria is possible.

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The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel ...

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

Houthi rebels in Yemen say Israeli airstrikes targeted the rebel-held capital of Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida.

Syrians who remained loyal to him through years of civil war fume that he left without a word. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over 20 years and spent seven years as editor-in-chief of the Washingtonian.

Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, the Latin-rite archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan, Iran, who Pope Francis elevated to the cardinalate earlier this month, finds himself at the center of an increasingly ...

Sudan's civil war has drawn extensive foreign involvement, complicating peace efforts and deepening the humanitarian crisis.