Without meaningful steps from Tel Aviv, normalisation is a non-starter - but after years of war, Damascus cannot afford a ...

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

It’s too soon to discuss setting up new military bases in Syria, Ankara says but assured concrete steps are underway to help ...

More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.

Now Hezbollah is also at risk of losing the support of Lebanese Shiites, who make up its domestic base. As is usually the ...

While it is not clear how Gaza will be rebuilt when the current conflict between Hamas and Israel ends - it is equally uncertain how the US would come to "own" Gaza, resettle its population, and ...

The Defense Department is reportedly planning to pull all U.S. troops out Syria. Sources told NBC News on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and officials close to him have shown interest in pulling ...