As Syria and international partners negotiate the country’s future, France has sought to be a convening power. While France has a history of influence in the Middle East, it will have to balance ...

The interim government in Syria will engage in an international conference to secure aid pledges amid severe humanitarian crises post-Assad. Hosted by the EU in Brussels, the event aims to support ...

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to sectarian warfare in Syria, but there is still a path for the country’s new rulers ...

In their first official call since Trump's return to office, the pair discussed efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, the ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump and discussed efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine and to restore stability in Syria, Erdogan's office ...

The leaders of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq on Sunday commemorated the Halabja massacre of Kurds that ...

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The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the<a ...

US Central Command carried out an airstrike that killed Abdallah Makki Muslih al Rifai, also known as Abu Khadijah. Rifai was ...

Islam remains the religion of the head of state, Arabic is the sole official language and the constitutional declaration offers no guarantees or protections for Syria’s minorities.

American and Iraqi military forces killed a senior Islamic State leader using an airstrike, U.S. Central Command confirmed in ...