The formation of a Lebanese government has been postponed another week. Various parties that had been eagerly awaiting a breakthrough are growing increasingly concerned. There were several indications ...

Geopolitical shifts in the troubled Middle East, highlighted by the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran's ...

Analysis: Lebanon's politics have been transformed within a week, with Hezbollah losing control of the executive branch after ...

As a result, in today’s post-Assad Syria, China faces complicated dilemmas. But depending on how developments unfold and how the West ultimately approaches the new powers that be in Damascus ...

Frangieh is a close personal friend of Syria's ousted president, Bashar al-Assad. He was a pillar of a Damascus-dominated ... referred to as the "Shia duo", might consider backing him [AFP] Jihad ...

Now, however, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has presented the U.S. with a similar opportunity. For years, Beijing has consistently sided with Bashar al-Assad in his brutal repression ...

The tunnels, seen by an AFP correspondent, are among secrets of president Bashar al-Assad’s rule exposed since rebels toppled him on Dec 8. “We entered this enormous barracks of the Republican ...

But soon after the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, the military under President Bashar al-Assad closed the mountain to civilians. Suddenly, instead of families and friends shooting fireworks ...

For the past several weeks, Maryam Kamalmaz has been relentlessly scouring social media and WhatsApp groups, searching for any news about the whereabouts of her father, who disappeared more than ...

Countless other inmates — both criminals and Assad opponents — simply vanished after being incarcerated there. In 2017, the U.S. State Department said the Assad regime was using a crematorium ...

Countless other inmates — both criminals and Assad opponents — simply vanished after being incarcerated there. In 2017, the U.S. State Department said the Assad regime was using a crematorium ...

Several reports have suggested that ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad may have been poisoned in Moscow. According to these reports, he fell ill on Sunday afternoon. Assad has been under the ...