Ministers from Jordan and Qatar were among the first high-ranking Arab diplomats to meet with the leader of the rebel ...

Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

Syria, part of the ancient world, that figures prominently in Jewish history, came under the sway of the Muslim Ottoman Empire based in Turkey. The Ottoman Empire ruled the land from 1516 to the end ...

Turkey’s foreign minister traveled to Damascus Sunday to meet with Syria’s new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of ...

Jordanian and Qatari diplomats met with Syria's new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday, the latest delegations to visit ...

Turkey's foreign minister said after meeting Syria's de facto leader in Damascus on Sunday that there was no room for Kurdish ...

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, Petra is known for its iconic pink sandstone, its (at-the-time) advanced ...

It intensified after Iran’s Revolution. 2024 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The ...

Can a state-centered ideological political agenda in Syria — instead of a violent global jihadist one — succeed after years of dictatorship?

More than 230,000 killed since 2011 At least 12 million displaced One in four living in extreme poverty BEIRUT (Thomson ...

In the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2024, the UAE climbed three places to seventh in the world, out of 67 countries.

Turkey, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Three campaigns drove the conflict: coalition efforts to defeat the self-proclaimed Islamic State, violence between the Syrian government and ...