The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...

Rana Al-Ahmad opens her fridge after breaking fast at sundown with her family during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

In years past, Israel might have been content to stop there. But its current leaders favour an unbridled assertion of power, some for pragmatic reasons, others for ideological ones. They are seizing ...

Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

Kurdish leaders affiliated with the PKK are more cautious about dissolving the party. They believe it is unwise to abandon 45 ...

Head of ISIS in Syria, Iraq killed: The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq, the Iraqi prime minister Shia al-Sudani announced on Friday. The Iraqi PM said that Abu ...

DUBAI/GENEVA - The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new Islamist leadership in Damascus and called for it to be rewritten.

Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signed off on a constitutional declaration for a five-year-long transitional period on Thursday, hoping to centralize power in order to unify the country.

Major US Sanctions are a major barrier to reconstruction in Syria. With violence erupting on the country’s coast, US ...

Kurdish-Led Syrian Group Rejects Islamist Authorities' New Constitution Framework By Jana Choukeir and Emma Farge DUBAI/GENEVA (Reuters) - The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians ...