More than a month has already passed since the collapse of the Assad regime, which ruled Syria with an iron grip for five ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from several countries backing either the rebels or ...

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The Israeli military says its soldiers killed an alleged militant in Gaza whom it said posed a threat to its forces. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stretched into a ...

Armed factions who led the final charge on Damascus that toppled Assad are hesitating to take part in a new system led by ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party said it will send a delegation to meet Abdullah Ocalan, head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers ...

Civil organizing persisted during Syria’s civil war but also shifted to “translocal organizations” operating in rebel-held ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

For the Islamist militant group, armed struggle now looks like a dead end. Its future in Gaza depends on the civilian ...