Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the signing of a broad ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says his Cabinet won’t meet to approve the agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages until Hamas backs ...

Syria is eyeing closer ties with Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, as it recovers from years of civil war.

The new Syrian government must be an "inclusive and representative government that fully respects the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Syrians, including women and Syria’s diverse ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

Syria’s new government has strongly condemned Israel’s incursions into a U.N.-monitored buffer zone, urging the international ...

Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged Syria’s new government to initiate a comprehensive national ...

Assad’s government in December 2024 created new possibilities to ensure accountability for years of atrocity crimes and the ...

Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy talks with NPR's Leila Fadel about the group that now controls Syria and why it's so hard to shed the label of "terrorists." ...