As millions flee Iran, Europe braces for a refugee crisis darker—and likely larger—than Syria’s a decade ago.

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

Just two days after the US and Israel killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in late February, Hezbollah ...

World / Books & the Arts / How to make sense of the 13-year conflict? Anand Gopal This essay is adapted from Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution (Simon & Schuster).

Less than a month after the repeal of Caesar Act sanctions, Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al Sharaa launched an ...

In “Days of Love and Rage,” Anand Gopal creates an indelible portrait of revolution and civil war during the Assad regime. By Charles Glass Charles Glass is a former ABC News chief Middle East ...

Far-right figures praised Joe Kent’s resignation, but the White House and Jewish leaders largely criticized him.

LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) - A former member of Syria's Air Force Intelligence has been charged in Britain with crimes against humanity in suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations in Damascus in 2011 ...

Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm received funding from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Middle Eastern Studies Program that supported this research. Arnaud Kurze does not work for, consult, own shares ...

Syria, now led by a new government headed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, has only recently emerged from a decade-long civil war following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.