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

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

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

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

F or a kid whose favorite subject was history, the Assassin’s Creed series was what I had hoped to see in a video game.

The Israeli military blew up at least 20 buildings in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, staging controlled demolitions ...

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus suburb, where the violence and ...

You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa Gate. Each doorway marks a significant era of Jerusalem's ...

Another car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a city in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least 19 people and leaving over ...

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