For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Gaza has long been a powder keg. It exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing ...

In a landmark move signaling a new chapter in Middle Eastern diplomacy, Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa embarked on ...

While "owning" land is a term that appears to be more applicable to real estate than to territories, the Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as an integral part of their future state, even if the rulers ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

After Donald Trump’s meeting this week with Benjamin Netanyahu, there are fears that the long-term human tragedy for ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

I had resigned myself to the idea that I’d never see my family or my city again.” In Syria, a Bittersweet Return to a ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

The resilience of Palestinians and Syrians in the face of immense suffering shows unmatched strength and courage ...