Thanks to former chancellor Angela Merkel's asylum policy, Germany has taken in nearly half the Syrians seeking refuge in ...

When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and ...

Akram Ojjeh built his fortune as a middleman for French arms sales to Saudi Arabia, up until his death in 1991. The legal ...

Opinion: President Trump made the right call — he attacked the Iranian nuclear weapons program with the bombing capability ...

This is Jerusalem, where an uneasy peace is holding. The site of so much conflict over the past 1000 years and the centre of ...

DAMASCUS - For days, Syrians have watched as Iranian missiles and Israeli interceptors light up the skies over their ...

I was on duty as the night operations officer at the 1-163rd Infantry headquarters in southern Iraq. I received a satellite radio call from my Battalion Commander, who was leading a night security ...

He has spent most of his time living in the US with his wife and three daughters - and is a leading ... Vladimir Putin ...

The surprise ceasefire between Iran and Israel, brokered by the Trump administration, has raised fresh questions about th ...

For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...

Residents decry 'savage' demolitions as Israeli soldiers advance further into Syria's southern Quneitra province ...

Syria expert Fabrice Balanche (left) highlights the concentration of Alawites living along the coast, where the massacres ...