In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba mate, snacking on nuts, smoking hookah pipes and watching the sky for ...

Of all the nation states in the Middle East, Syria has been the longest and most implacable enemy of Israel. Even Iran, ...

A billboard unveiled in central Damascus this week is raising eyebrows across the Middle East and beyond. It features Syria’s ...

Let’s be careful, though. Sure, we don’t want to reject a hand that’s extended in peace, but we also can’t assume we’re ...

Joint declaration expresses ‘grave concern’ over escalation in Middle East, calls for UNSC to be ‘seized of this matter’ - ...

In what would be the second such operation in less than a week, the Israeli military claimed it arrested members of Iran’s ...

If you read the analyses that are being published by Washington-based think tanks themselves, the messaging is relatively ...

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is chipping away at Iran’s regional influence. He is urging Syria and Lebanon to join the ...

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..." Mainstream media coverage of the Israel-Iran conflict often pivots on proxies, ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

Trump’s Syria strategy aims to enable US military withdrawal while weakening Iran’s influence, pressuring Hezbollah, and ...

Given that Israeli and American advocates of regime change in Iran will not abandon their pursuit of this ...