NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

A colossal statue of Hafez al-Assad was once a powerful symbol of Syria’s ruling regime, looming over the Damascus-Aleppo ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

The Kremlin and now-exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017 agreed Russia should have long-term access to Tartus naval ...

Syria's new central bank governor, Maysaa Sabreen, said she wants to boost the institution's independence over monetary ...

More than two million patients face virtually no treatment options or are forced to pay exorbitant prices on black market, ...

Through prayer and protest, believers struggle to interpret the promises of newly ascendant Islamist leadership.

Although Erdogan might deplore the effect on Turkey’s domestic political scene, he may yet see an autonomous Kurdish region ...

In August 2015, with Syria devastated by war, Yusra Mardini and her sister faced an impossible choice—leave everything behind ...

The far-right ministers have previously threatened to resign and topple Netanyahu’s governing coalition if he accepted ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...