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 ...

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

The families of hostages freed from Gaza over the weekend, the latest release in the ceasefire deal, described difficult ...

Syria's former President Bashar Al-Assad fled to Moscow when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning sweep across the ...

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to new prime ...

The election of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is a political breakthrough in Lebanon and a harbinger ...

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, ...

Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 16 (UPI) --Recent geopolitical shifts in the troubled Middle East, highlighted by the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad and ... The parliament's selection of Salam ...

NPR's Emily Feng and Jawad Rizkallah met some of them across the Syrian border in Lebanon, where many are ... which former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his family also belong to and who ...