Even before last Sunday's suicide bombing of a Damascus church, many Syrian Christians harbored doubts if the government that ...

The Lebanese army has arrested a senior Islamic State leader known as “Qasoura,” seizing weapons and drone-making gear in a ...

Syria's banks, long-time pariahs in the global financial system, are expected to resume ties with international lenders ...

After decades of using proxies to attack U.S. troops, experts say Iran's network has been degraded, but small groups still ...

Pope Leo XIV said the terrorist attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus was “vile” during his Wednesday Audience at the ...

However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the “gate” of divine inspiration. As a result, Alawites have been called ...

A month after leaving Kola Bay, aircraft of the Kuznetsov began operations against Islamic State and Al-Nusra terrorist ...

A little-known Sunni Muslim extremist group claimed responsibility on June 24 for a weekend suicide attack against a church ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind people that in the disorienting first days after Hamas’ Oct_ 7, ...

Algeria has appointed a new ambassador to Syria and deployed energy experts to help restore its power grid, as part of ...

The new EU sanctions target Assad-linked financiers and ex-military officers over human rights abuses and support for ...

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new flag flies across Syria: the emblem of the rebels who toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Ben Hubbard, The New York Times’s Istanbul bureau ...