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

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

Volodymyr Zelensky has lauded incoming US president Donald Trump saying he could be decisive in the outcome of the 34-month-old war with Russia and help stop Vladimir Putin. At such a critical moment ...

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

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that time, the fighting showed little sign of stopping. Then ...

But it also fragmented Syria's territory, with several armed factions now jostling for control, and international players anxious to preserve their regional interests amid the chaos. Here's a map ...

Rebels supported by Turkish air power fired on a Kurdish-controlled city in northern Syria, pitting proxies of ... the current chaos to rewrite the map in Turkey’s favor,” said Devorah ...

I've been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn't see this ...

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

The stunning fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria thrusts several rebel groups and foreign powers into the spotlight as they vie for control and influence. There are Turkish-backed rebels ...