The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

Ankara and Damascus are working on a plan for defense cooperation, according to a Turkish official, who added that Turkey's ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

US president’s proposal to expel millions of Palestinians follows years of interventions favouring the Israeli rightwing ...

Five people with Arab roots meet up in a Berlin restaurant to talk about Gaza. After more than a year of war, they say that Germany's uncritical backing of Israel has alienated them and their ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Given the foregoing, Israel should remain the only country with nuclear weapons in the Middle East, as long as its nuclear doctrine remains defensive. On the other hand, Israel cannot be asked to get ...

Israeli forces also remain active inside the Syrian border region as victorious rebels there build a transitional government. Tensions remain high between Israel and Iran after tit-for-tat long ...

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” scenario and aid a resurgence of ISIS, the commander of a US-backed Syrian ...

In the days following the fall of Assad, Russian troops and vehicles were seen evacuating their bases in Syria en masse, with reports that Russia was moving assets elsewhere in the Middle East, ...

Kurdish groups in Syria are expressing hope for continued support from the United States as President Donald Trump begins his second term in office. Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been ...