The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

Ankara and Damascus are working on a plan for defense cooperation, according to a Turkish official, who added that Turkey's ...

Ukrainian forces counter-attack inside Russia's Kursk region, with Ukraine armored units breaking out of the town of Sudzha ...

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...

Eleven people are dead after a rampaging gunman opened fire at an adult education centre in central Sweden, in what has been dubbed the country’s worst ever mass shooting. Armed police were scrambled ...

Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

Partial transcript of a debate among King Farouk I of Egypt, President Shukri Kuwatly of Syria, President Bechara Khoury of ...

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

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

Hospitals workers say at least 19 people were killed all but one of them women when a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a ...

The map below, using USAID data released by U.S. Office of Foreign Assistance, shows the countries where USAID spent most ...