The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

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 ...

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

In the two months since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, 270,000 Syrians have returned home, the United Nations ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

Sharaa, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, the rebel group ...

Trump's pick to head U.S. intelligence has broken with its assessments several times since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The ...

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

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad ...

Following the collapse of Syria's government and President Assad's flight, the country faces uncertainty. The Kurdish region ...