The current situation in Syria has the purpose of weakening Syria and its allies in the Middle East 's "Axis of Resistance," Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Major-General Mohammad Bagheri, said on ...

Since the Syrian civil war began, around 2012, approximately 6.9 million people have been internally displaced, and an additional 6.8 million are refugees, mainly in Turkey and Jordan — and Lebanon, ...

The Middle East is today more repressive than it was in 2010. The authoritarian regimes that have emerged since 2011 have ...

Israeli forces carried out several new drone and artillery strikes in Lebanon on Tuesday, including a deadly strike that the ...

In the Levant, Syria’s smoldering civil war flared up, with an apparently reformed Islamist terrorist organization retaking the northern city of Aleppo. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, surprised even ...

Intense airstrikes overnight drove Syrian rebels back from the edge of Hama, a major city whose fall would pile pressure on ...

Brent crude futures rose 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $73.85 a barrel by 0700 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 19 cents, or 0.3%, to $70.13 ...

Syria state media say government troops are battling insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time ...

Iraq will not act as a mere spectator in Syria where it believes groups and sects are victims of ethnic cleansing, Iraq's ...

Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to withdraw ...