If you wonder why Israel attacked Iran now, with an overextended army tied down in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, congratulations on refusing to be a passive consumer of what passes ...

Greetings from a sweltering Ankara.This week in Turkey was one of striking contrasts: While peace talks with Kurdish ...

The ministers of Israel and Palestine will be in the same room in Brussels a day before the bloc discusses options in ...

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) released a statement on Wednesday urging forces in Libya to show restraint, as armed ...

The head of the United Nations’ migration agency has warned that tightening borders while cutting development aid could ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than ...

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A U.S. envoy said on Wednesday that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces ...

The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

Ambitious state-owned player Turkish Petroleum has struck a tentative deal to carry out exploration activities offshore Libya. This is the latest overseas foray by the big Istanbul-based ...

Syria said Friday that authorities had seized some three million pills of the illicit stimulant captagon after clashes with a drug trafficking network near the Lebanese border. Authorities observed ...