U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesady became the first American president to meet with his Syrian counterpart in a quarter ...

Israel’s defense minister says that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely.

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...

This year’s Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers, which will be marked next week, carries a deeper meaning than ever.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has largely been expected to follow one of two foreign policy paths: preserve the country’s position as the ... they began redrawing the map of Eurasia ...

Ben Hubbard is the Istanbul bureau chief, covering Turkey and the surrounding ... Syria’s New President: Ahmed al-Shara sat down for an interview at the presidential palace in the country ...

But persistent outbreaks of sectarian violence have stoked fears among Syria’s many minority groups that the country’s new government, which mostly belongs to the Sunni Arab majority ...

Syria cannot hope to rebuild itself if it fails ... Vigilantes mobilize across the country and seek to take the law into their own hands. The Syrian government, which has had trouble unifying ...

and as he seeks to broaden ties to Western countries. Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on parts of Syria last week, saying it aims to protect the country’s Druze minority from coming ...

The new authorities in Damascus have made a push for harsh sanctions imposed by western countries on Assad's government to be lifted, with limited success. The UK government has said it is lifting ...