BEIRUT: Lebanon is facing a "financial siege" imposed by international powers and its priority is staving off strife caused by the country's...
BEIRUT: Lebanon looks set to announce Saturday it cannot make upcoming dollar bond payments and wants to restructure $31 billion of foreign currency debt,...
BEIRUT: Lebanon must seek a deal with Syria so Lebanese exporters can reach wider Middle East markets via the Syrian border with Jordan now that Damascus has...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah is helping to lead a Russian-backed offensive in southern Syria, pro-Damascus sources said, exposing the limits of U.S. policy that hopes...
DOUMA, Syria: It used to provide fresh food for the Syrian capital; now its hungry people are queuing for bread handouts from a truck. For over a week now,...
BEIRUT: Syria’s war is reaching a point where President Bashar Assad will not be able to win back much more territory without risking conflicts with foreign...
ALEPPO, Syria: The power supply in Syria’s Aleppo will be boosted this year thanks to new capacity installed by its ally Iran, a step toward reviving...
ALEPPO, Syria/ BEIRUT: Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurds are getting indirect help from an unlikely source in their war against Turkey in the northwestern region of...
DAMASCUS: Hussein al-Khalaf, 13, burst into tears as he sat in his classroom at the Ahmad Baheddine Rajab school near Damascus, recounting why he is learning...
BEIRUT: The Syrian army and its allies are fighting to secure and expand a precarious corridor to their comrades in Deir al-Zor a day after they smashed...
BEIRUT: With a sudden lunge through jihadist lines, the Syrian army and its allies Monday came to within 3km of relieving the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor,...
BEIRUT: A U.S. cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base may persuade President Bashar Assad to be more cautious with some of his tactics, but will not deter...
BEIRUT/AMMAN/GENEVA: When rebel fighters launched a last desperate attempt to break the siege of Aleppo in October, they were beaten back – not by the Syrian...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies hope to benefit from Donald Trump’s election win, believing it has saved them from the risks of an...
DAMASCUS: Russian mediators are helping the Syrian government to broker deals with rebels seeking to lay down their weapons or to relocate to insurgent...
BEIRUT: The Army commander says camps that are home to refugees from neighboring Syria represent a growing security risk as potential hideouts for militants...
BEIRUT/GENEVA: Russia’s military intervention in the Syrian war has all but destroyed a deal agreed last month to halt fighting between warring sides in...
BEIRUT: At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his Russian hosts how a series of defeats for President...
BEIRUT/MOSCOW: Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government,...
BEIRUT: Syria's foreign minister said Friday it was too early to hold another United Nations-backed peace conference on Syria, indicating the dim...
BEIRUT: Kurdish-led forces in Syria seized a town from ISIS Tuesday after capturing a military base overnight, aided by U.S.-led airstrikes in some of the...
DAMASCUS: The Syrian government says it has come through worse phases in the 4-year-old conflict than the latest advances by insurgents across the country and...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: A senior Syrian army officer was wounded in a suicide bombing in a central Damascus district Monday, activists said, though the military denied...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called Tuesday during talks with Iraq's foreign minister in Damascus for a united front with Baghdad in...
BEIRUT: As the U.S. and Iran negotiate the final stages of a nuclear deal, they are still oceans apart on another area of conflict: the future of Syrian...