Israel’s wars on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran have sought to shape a new Middle East, one in which Tel Aviv has undisputed ...

The United States maintains a vast military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

The attack on a Greek Orthodox service made clear the challenges facing Syria’s new government in a country long pitted by ...

U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State (IS) militants surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months.

A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter stand in a balcony in Raqqa, Syria June 27, 2017 (Photo: Reuters) Related. US-backed SDF sees big risk of clash with Turkey in northwest Syria; ...

Mazen Hassoun is a Syrian journalist from Raqqa and the co-founder of the online outlet Al-Raqqa Post. He resides in Germany, where he arrived in 2015 as a refugee, after the fall of Raqqa to the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least three internal security forces (Asayish) members of northeast Syria (Rojava) were killed in a suspected Islamic State (ISIS) landmine while patrolling on the ...

Islamic State billboards are seen along a street in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the worldwide jihadist group, October 29, 2014. The billboard (R) reads: "We will win despite the ...

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the Syrian army to ...

A new date for the negotiations has not been set, a journalist close to the AANES delegation told Syria Direct. Ahead of the meeting, the internal affairs on the northeastern Syrian side were in ...

The introductory part of his assessment reads as follows: "A century ago, the West imposed maps, mandates, drawn borders, and foreign rule. Sykes-Picot divided Syria and a broader region not for ...