Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade, officials said ...

Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a ...

The Alawites are a minority esoteric sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Between 10-12% of Syrians currently belong to the ...

It’s gone on for so long… there will be some who will think that’s just taking far too long and too much terrible, terrible ...

The Palestinian prime minister says it's unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...

Among the candidates most likely to face tough opposition now are Director of National Intelligence-designate Tulsi Gabbard and Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not itself guarantee peace in a country so recently riven by autocratic rule and a ...

The Palestinian prime minister says it's unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...

Multiple officials say Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and the release dozens of hostages after more than ...

DOHA, Qatar — Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal, mediators announced Wednesday, pausing a devastating 15-month war ...

Anticipation is growing as Israel and Hamas appear to be at the closest point yet to sealing a deal to end 15 months of war. Key mediator Qatar said it ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...