The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

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 ...

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

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions ... Iraqi government spokesperson Bassim al-Awadi ...

Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

Trump's pick to head U.S. intelligence has broken with its assessments several times since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

In the two months since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, 270,000 Syrians have returned home, the United Nations ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations ... despite having once spent time in Iraq imprisoned by U.S. forces and having ...

The dramatic ouster of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad on 8 December has sparked anxiety in Iraq that the Islamist group now in charge in Syria will scramble the fragile sectarian balance ...