The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is at the centre of the war between Iran and Israel, leading the clerical establishment's retaliation to Israel's military campaign despite the loss of ...

After Assad fled to Russia, Abu Tarek and other internally displaced people suddenly had new freedom to move about the ...

Asharq Al Awsat US forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop drawdown that the commander of US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces ...

Iran spent decades propping up militias and regimes across the region as its first line of defence, but now finds itself ...

In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The new Syrian authorities has gone a long way towards gaining full recognition by the international ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League ...

Syria was once among the closest allies of the Islamic republic, but the new government resents Tehran’s support for the ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spent almost four decades as Shi'ite Iran's supreme leader building a regional power to rival the ...