AMMAN/GENEVA: Around 350,000 Syrians, mostly women and children, have fled a renewed Russian-backed offensive in the opposition-held Idlib province since...
BEIRUT: Russian-backed Syrian forces have gained ground after a week-long renewed assault against the last opposition enclave in Syria's northwest, the...
BEIRUT: Thousands of people have fled to the Turkish border from the last big opposition stronghold in northwestern Syria because of an intensified...
AMMAN: A financial crisis in Lebanon has hit the economy of neighboring Syria hard, choking off a vital source of dollars and dragging the Syrian pound to...
BEIRUT: Like most young protesters flooding Lebanon’s streets to vent their fury over joblessness and inequality, Nina Sabbah demands more than the...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to...
AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah II reacts angrily to any suggestion that he might accept a U.S. deal to end the Arab-Israeli conflict that would make his...
AMMAN: Gulf states have deposited over $1 billion in Jordan’s central bank as part of a $2.5 billion package to shore up the kingdom’s struggling economy. The...
AMMAN: After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies...
AMMAN: Jordan’s Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki reshuffled his Cabinet Sunday and appointed the king’s chief of staff as his special deputy for economic affairs...
AMMAN: Jordan's royal palace warned it would take legal measures against anyone spreading what it said were lies about the ruling family, just days after...
AMMAN: Syrian opposition groups are resisting Jordanian pressure to hand control of a border crossing back to the Syrian government, a step that would be a...
AMMAN/ALEPPO, Syria: When Syria’s civil war came to the industrial city of Aleppo in 2012, two textile makers had to choose whether to stay or move...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syria’s war has entered a new phase as President Bashar Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from Daesh (ISIS), using firepower...
AMMAN: Syrian rebels have seized large areas from Daesh (ISIS) in southern Syria in the last two weeks as the militant group prepares to defend its Raqqa...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Assad’s opponents appear more divided than ever as they prepare for peace talks next week, demoralized by their defeat...
AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah reshuffled his Cabinet but retained Hani Mulki as prime minister Sunday, granting him more scope to tackle the threat of...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: As the bombardment of Aleppo intensified in the days before the collapse of the city’s rebel enclave, Mahmoud Issa would try to comfort his...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: As the Syrian government and its allies prepared to ramp up their attack on Aleppo in November, one of the rebel groups defending the...
BEIRUT/AMMAN: On the eve of Donald Trump’s election victory, members of a Western-backed Syrian rebel group met U.S. officials to ask about the outlook for...
AMMAN: Three U.S. military trainers were shot dead in Jordan Friday when their car failed to stop at the gate of a military base and was fired on by Jordanian...
AMMAN/BEIRUT: A Russian-backed offensive in Aleppo is pushing nationalist rebels to work more closely with militants, further complicating a Western policy...
AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Assad is targeting the last pockets of resistance to his rule around Damascus and Homs, building on a tactic of siege and...
JERUSALEM/AMMAN: A new airport planned by Israel near its border with Jordan is clouding the usually businesslike relationship the two neighbours have built...
The opposition-held sector of Syria’s divided city of Aleppo has been cut off from the outside world in recent days by an escalation of air and...