Germany announced on Monday a new aid package worth €300 million for Syria, ahead of the European Union–hosted donor conference in Brussels aimed at mobilising funds for Damascus following the ousting ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Recent years have seen deepening crises, reshaping power dynamics and even an ongoing genocide in the Middle East, with peace ...

Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of ...

HRW recommended that the constitution be revised to incorporate stronger judicial independence and legislative oversight, which it said will help "ensure Syria's transition respects human rights, ...

If Herzl and Fishmann’s Greater Israel is realised today, it would swallow significant territories from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and all of Jordan, Lebanon, and historical Palestine.

Umit Bektas/Reuters Turkey has also emerged in the past few months with greater influence in Syria because of its ties to the rebel group that overthrew Mr. al-Assad. The P.K.K.’s decisions over ...

The anxious Baathist Syria turned into a country that sparked alarm in others when it began to collect cards that it could use to manipulate the security and stability of its neighbors. It became an ...

This would help ensure that Syria’s transition respects human rights, holds those responsible for past abuses accountable, and fosters a future of greater accountability. “Syria’s transition ...

In southern Syria its forces have penetrated 13 kms inside the Dara’a governorate and are ... “which is sparsely populated and which cannot become a powerful nation.” Under various rubrics, notably of ...

"If there's no major and concrete international action to stop these terrorist acts," the former Syrian diplomat said, "greater ethnic cleansing would definitely spread." ...