Senior officials from Libya's UN-recognised government met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday and discussed ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, and used the ...

That hope was boosted Friday with the news that Roger D. Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, had arrived in the capital city of Damascus along with two other top U.S.

Israel "does not need this territory, as the Israelis have already taken the Golan Heights," Vitaly Naumkin said ...

It seems like just yesterday that leaders across Western Europe and North America were advertising their openness to ...

Some Syrian refugees are considering going back to their home country after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. NBC News' Daniele Hamamdjian speaks to some of the refugees about their decision.

Nearly 31,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's interior minister said Friday, the figure rising by about 5,000 in just three days.

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

At least 59 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, 50 of them in a strike on a building in the most northern part ...

On December 27, security forces formed by the new Syrian government blocked districts of the city of Tartus, where Alawites organized riots ...

The hunt for the former head of the military judiciary under long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad, Mohammed Kanjou al-Hassan, ...

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the ...