The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

This six-day journey through pristine and remote Walls of Jerusalem National Park is rated one of Australia’s greatest walks.

Which direction do we want Syria to go? Host to a 10-sided gunfight? A return to a repressive regime? Proxies and promoters ...

Anticipation is growing as Israel and Hamas appear to be at the closest point yet to sealing a deal to end 15 months of war ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Anticipation is growing as Israel and Hamas appear to be at the closest point yet to sealing a deal to end 15 months of war.

The U.S. has called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern both the West Bank and Gaza ahead of eventual statehood ...

The ceasefire deal is expected to include six-week initial truce phase and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus Saturday in the first such visit since before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, an AFP journalist reported.

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians, nearly all of them women or children.

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 18 Palestinians, including five displaced children who ...

The Israeli military has launched a wave of raids across the occupied West Bank, killing at least three Palestinians it said ...