The new Syrian government in Damascus sent a convoy of vehicles from the General Security Department to Afrin, a historically ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

Sharaa's first official visit abroad since taking office has drawn regional and international attention, signalling a new start in Syria's foreign relations. Experts believe that al-Sharaa's trip to ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of Mecca and Mammon” ...

Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its ...

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

President Donald Trump, who said he wanted to end Middle East wars, is stumbling toward a dangerous new entanglement with his talk of expelling Palestinians from Gaza and seizing the territory for ...

Saudi Arabia has experienced significant social and political transformations lately. Who would have predicted tango lessons ...