Governments worldwide are stepping up efforts to engage with Syria's new interim rulers, just over a week after Islamist-led ...

Drug lords like Sean McGovern, a top lieutenant of the Kinahan cartel, and Faissal Taghi -- son of the infamous head of the ...

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The Israeli government approved on Sunday a plan to increase the population of the annexed Golan Heights, while insisting it ...

Residents of Qusayr in central Syria are finally returning home after the departure of Hezbollah fighters, who helped Bashar ...

The Baath party, once a powerful symbol of Arab nationalism, has become a fading relic of authoritarian rule in the Middle ...

Syrian rebel leader Riad al-Asaad told AFP on Sunday he was confident that the myriad of factions which helped topple Bashar al-Assad after years of war will now unite as one force.Asaad, a former ...

A week after a lightning rebel offensive toppled longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations special envoy for Syria ...

Hundreds of students at Damascus University trampled on a statue of one of Syria's former rulers on Sunday, expressing ...

A former prisoner spearheading a private effort to help find captive US journalist Austin Tice is concerned that deposed ...

Gaza's civil defence agency reported Sunday that overnight Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory killed at least ...

Damascus University students stand on a toppled statue of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad during a rally near the ...