In a stunning diplomatic development, officials from Israel and Syria are holding quiet, backchannel talks for the first time in over a decade. This move comes after months of intense regional ...

Israel and Iran have been enemies for decades — but this is their most sustained direct fighting ever. Here’s how a shadow ...

In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba mate, snacking on nuts, smoking hookah pipes and watching the sky for ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

Trump’s Syria strategy aims to enable US military withdrawal while weakening Iran’s influence, pressuring Hezbollah, and balancing regional alliances, though internal contradictions and Israeli ...

If you read the analyses that are being published by Washington-based think tanks themselves, the messaging is relatively ...

Given that Israeli and American advocates of regime change in Iran will not abandon their pursuit of this ...

For days, Syrians have watched as Iranian missiles and Israeli interceptors light up the skies over their territory, but the new government in Damascus has so far remained officially silent on the ...

In five short months, the president has made tremendous progress towards his early second term promises on the Middle East.

American strikes in Iran.A suicide bombing killed at least 20 in Damascus A suicide bomber attacked a Greek Orthodox church in the Syrian capital, Damascus, yesterday, killing at least 20 people ...

The pro-Palestine messaging ignores the fact that a nuclear-armed Iran would be far more belligerent and dangerous than the ...