You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

It is rare to hear of a regime in our time that has triumphed and treated its followers and affiliates with nobility and tolerance, as we have seen with Ahmad al-Sharaa in Syria. In Iraq, the ...

Russia and Iran have drawn closer since the start of the war in Ukraine, with Tehran providing Moscow with drones.

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

The Alawites are seen as religious deviants by the Sunni Islamists, and as remnants of the ousted regime, and their position ...

Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

World news highlights include Zelenskiy's meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss Ukraine peace talks, Syria's forces merging ...

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s minority sect were a ...

It began on March 6, forces in the coastal region came under attack from fighters under the Assad regime.  Read more at ...

The Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal ...

A Syrian military operation against remnants of the former Assad regime has now ended, having sparked some of the worst ...

COMMENTARY: The mostly Christian small towns and villages located only a few miles away from where Alawite Muslims were ...