President DONALD TRUMP signed a new executive order escalating economic and political pressure on Iran today to revive his so ...

RALF HIRSCHBERGER/AFP Anwar Al Bunni picked up the phone after just two rings. It was December 8, the day Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar Assad and took control of Damascus. Al Bunni ...

(photo credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS) In the last few months, no one could have imagined that Hezbollah in Lebanon, the crown jewel of the Iranian Ring of ... changed the face of the Middle ...

Activists say temporary visits would help Syrians rebuild their homes and encourage voluntary returns.Anwar Bunni picked up the phone just after two rings. It was December 8, the day Syrian rebels ...

Hamas released eight hostages on Thursday — five Thai farm workers and three dual German-Israeli nationals — in exchange for ...

Hamas has confirmed for the first time that Israeli killed the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike last year ...

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Readers respond to Rachel Aviv’s piece about Alice Munro, Adam Gopnik’s essay on Saturn’s rings ... Face of the Syrian Revolution From the daily newsletter: Jon Lee Anderson reports from ...

Damascus, SANA- A delegation from the Russian Federation, led by Mikhail Bogdanov, Special Envoy for the Middle East, arrived in Damascus on Tuesday and met with the new Syrian administration.

A bookseller shows a volume that was reportedly banned during the rule of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad — LOUAI BESHARA Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical ...

DAMASCUS-Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad ...