NEW YORK, United States: Syria's envoy to the United Nations says it's time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President...
WADI AL-GHORAB, northern Iraq: The black banner of ISIS, affixed to a shack within sight of this front line, is evidence of the existential threat menacing...
IRBIL, Iraq: Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani warned that despite victories in the war against ISIS, the global coalition against the group was...
BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam believes a deal settling the Iranian nuclear dispute could help pave the way towards ending the political deadlock that...
BEIRUT: When Sunni rebels rose up against Syria’s Bashar Assad in 2011, Turkey reclassified its protégé as a pariah, expecting him to lose...
BEIRUT: Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) insurgents who seized a Lebanese border town this month planned to turn Lebanon into another Iraq by...
BEIRUT: The capture of Iraqi cities Mosul and Tikrit by Al-Qaeda-influenced jihadis has not only redrawn the map of a country corroded by sectarian hatred. It...
CAIRO: Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt's next head of state,...
BEIRUT: Bashar Assad's Lebanese ally Hezbollah said his Western foes must now accept he will go on ruling Syria after fighting rebels to a standstill - a...
KILIS, Turkey: Syrian refugees in this border outpost were delighted to hear their hometown of Azaz had been liberated – not from Bashar Assad’s troops but...
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused political enemies of shameless fabrication of a telephone tap of him telling his son to dispose of large...
BEIRUT: More than two-and-a-half years into the civil war devastating Syria, the United States and Russia are pushing the combatants to the negotiating table...
BEIRUT: Bashar Assad, who only a month ago faced the likelihood of U.S. missile strikes that could have tipped the balance of Syria’s war against him,...
BEIRUT: As the army ruthlessly crushes the Muslim Brotherhood on the streets of Cairo, having swept away its elected president, Egypt is being painted as the...
BEIRUT: “Where Egypt goes, the region follows” is an adage often quoted by academics teaching the arcane politics of the Middle East. Wednesday’s military...
DAMASCUS: Aid workers in Syria are struggling to navigate a lawless archipelago of armed groups to get food to Syrians trapped in a fast-intensifying civil...
DAMASCUS: U.S. support for Syrian rebels may lead to more attacks on American soil like those of September 11, said a senior Syrian official who warned that...
DAMASCUS: Syria hopes to clinch more financial aid from its allies Russia and Iran soon, but still has enough foreign reserves to pursue its war on rebels...
BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad is likely to run for re-election next year and win, with Syria remaining in military and political deadlock until then, said...
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman called on Monday for international action to help Lebanon cope with a deluge of refugees from the war in neighbouring Syria...
DAMASCUS: MiG warplanes roar low overhead to strike rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad on the fringes of Damascus, while artillery batteries...
MARRAKECH, Morocco: The Syrian people no longer need the intervention of international forces as rebels push toward the heart of the capital of Damascus to...
MARRAKECH, Morocco: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have fired Scud-style ballistic missiles against rebels in recent days, U.S. and NATO...
MARRAKECH, Morocco: The leader of Syria's opposition coalition urged the United States on Wednesday to reconsider its decision to designate the militant...
MARRAKECH: Western and Arab nations sympathetic to Syria's uprising against President Bashar al-Assad gave full political recognition on Wednesday to the...