The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.

In 2025, with the U.S. talking about getting out of NATO, embroiled in a tariff war with the EU, and potentially preparing ...

A new phase of rapprochement has begun between the United States and Russia, marked by a phone call that lasted over an hour and a half between U.S. President ...

The list of ministers appears to be a compromise between calls for a diverse cabinet to unite the divided country while ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new transitional government was sworn in Saturday nearly four months after the Assad family was ...

After October 7, Israel sees a mental health tech boom: 117 startups tackling trauma, resilience with AI, self-care, and ...

The curmudgeonly Vermont senator, with his populist message, is drawing large crowds. This week he’s joined by Rep.

Greenland’s surprising elections; movement toward a peace deal in Ukraine; and destabilizing violence in Syria, among others.

Fighting erupted along the border between Lebanon and Syria overnight into Monday, Syrian state media reported, after three Syrian soldiers were killed in earlier clashes. Israeli soldiers stand ...

Syria’s new leaders are trying to consolidate control over territory that was divided into de facto mini-states during nearly 14 years of civil war, and to rebuild the economy and infrastructure.

Front row left to right, Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani and European Commissioner for the ...

Then, in December, Syrian rebels unexpectedly captured the ... What she found was a city uncertain about its future and divided by its past.