By leveraging diplomatic channels and regional alliances, Damascus could raise the costs of future Israeli intervention ...

The first group of Syrian refugees returned home from Lebanon on Tuesday under a new plan the United Nations developed with the Lebanese government following the downfall of Bashar Assad's rule in ...

The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years. This required balancing Iraq’s relations with two countries vit ...

More than 262 civilians, including women and children — and one American who was visiting his family — were butchered, some by gunfire, others burned alive or summarily executed. In Suwara al-Kubra, ...