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 ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year.

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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 ...

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the ...

Many Moslems, including Gulf oil state Arab governments, are openly seeking a way to reform Islam and eliminate this flaw which has been crippling Islam and killing Moslems for over a thousand years.

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 ...

Analysis: Since Assad's fall, hundreds have been killed in the escalating conflict between the Turkish-backed SNA and Kurdish ...

Fierce fighting between Kurdish SDF and Turkey-backed SNA forces continued to range in and around the Tishrin dam, amid the ...