However, despite being the architects of Assad's downfall, HTS's ability to govern over Syria, filled with opposition ... Senior Research Fellow in Middle East Security at the Royal United ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and Jordan-backed militants in the south, among others. These groups fought a ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that time, the fighting showed little sign of stopping. Then ...

This buffer zone, situated between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, was established by the United Nations following the 1973 Middle East war. Since then, it has been patrolled by a ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Photographs taken during the rule of Syria's deposed president, Bashar al-Assad, show life inside Russia's air and naval ...

The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise ...

Middle East Latest ... border crossing with Syria had been closed because of the security situation on the Syrian side. Opposition activists posted videos online showing people storming the ...