In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba ...

Iran has threatened to drag the United States into the conflict by attacking their bases in the region should Washington ...

From the challenges of a green transition to Syria after Assad, get your copy of Geographical's July issue, out ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The new Syrian authorities has gone a long way towards gaining full recognition by the international ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

Syria was once among the closest allies of the Islamic republic, but the new government resents Tehran’s support for the ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spent almost four decades as Shi'ite Iran's supreme leader building a regional power to rival the ...

President Trump returned to Washington on Tuesday to deal with the war between Iran and Israel, as the two sides exchanged deadly fire for a fifth day and Israeli officials pressed the United States ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to help the United States mediate a peace deal between Israel and Iran as tensions rise in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump’s administration suspended the majority of sanctions on Syria, marking the most sweeping shift in the ...

The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on territorial ...