President Ahmad Al Shara and a Syrian Kurdish militia leader failed to meet as expected on Wednesday during a visit to Damascus by US special envoy Thomas Barrack, sources said. It was a setback to US ...

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday that Azerbaijan's SOCAR could become a partner in Turkey's ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

US envoy Thomas Barrack said Monday he was satisfied by the response of Lebanon's authorities to a request to disarm Hizbollah, although warned Lebanon risked being left behind as change sweeps other ...

Any timely delivery of China's HQ-9B/FD-2000B air defense missile system to Iran would send a strong signal to Russia, which ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

The United States on Monday announced it was revoking its "foreign terrorist organization" designation of Hayat Tahrir ...

JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

Syria battles catastrophic wildfires in Latakia, burning 100 km² of forest; international aid from Jordan, Turkey, and the UN ...