The 2020 agreements addressed diplomacy and commerce, not conflicts or the Palestinians. Predictions that the deals would ...

A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

Syrian activist Shadi Martini tells lobby new president called peace with Israel a 'unique opportunity'; Gulf journalist ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

During more than a decade of war in Syria, plenty of external powers got involved. The hope now for the country’s shattered ...

Reports that Syria's interim president is threatening action over thousands of Syrians still held in Lebanese prisons have ...

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.

Lebanon's army says it has dismantled a major Captagon factory after finding a 300-metre tunnel used to deliver and store ...

Baghdad: In recent months, Iraq has navigated two difficult challenges. It avoided being drawn into the Israeli-Iranian conflict and managed to stay clear of the fallout from US strikes on Iran’s ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week lifting sanctions on Syria as a way to help the country's transitional government gain its footing.