No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to more than 3m Syrian refugees, and wants Syria to be safe enough for many to ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers. That's according to ...

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel.

Civil organizing persisted during Syria's civil war but also shifted to "translocal organizations" operating in rebel-held ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

One of the questions I’m most often asked, along with where my name comes from, is “Which are the up-and-coming wine regions ...

Political scientist Mark Leonard has found that people around the world are far more optimistic about Trump's presidency than ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

Today, HTS can be thought of as a relatively localized Syrian ... large-scale losses of territory, faltering local support, assassinations of key leaders, and significant defections in its ranks.[21] ...

Israel's deadly West Bank raids come as Qatari and Egyptian Prime Ministers could start talks over the second phase of the ...

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to ...

Turkey and Syria have agreed to reevaluate customs tariffs for certain products and they discussed economic and trade ...