War-weary Palestinians in Gaza who lost their homes and loved ones in 2024 saw little hope that 2025 would bring an end to ...

Tensions are high on Syria’s border with Lebanon. The ouster of President Bashar al-Assad led to worry that violence could ...

The two Mideast powerhouses have been trying to block the rise of Islamist groups in the region for two decades. The rebel ...

This was a story I heard many times from Syrians when reporting from Aleppo and Damascus in the days following ... on a street corner or the other end of the phone line. The wrong phrase or ...

Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people ... The fall of Assad brought an end to more than half a century of unchallenged rule by his family's clan over Syria, where dissent ...

CAIRO – Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in remarks ...

After Assad's regime was toppled in Syria, Iran and Russia seem to have suffered the biggest setback. Moscow and Tehran see ...

Ukraine’s returning POWs said to include civilians captured by Russia in Mariupol in 2022, while US President Joe Biden announces a $2.5-billion military aid package – supplemented by $3.4-billion in ...

The unthinkable in the troubled Middle East happened in 2024, with a major geopolitical shift after the stunning collapse of ...

The story of the Latin American revival implies that the continent could see a strong spell of growth whereas Asian economies ...