Pat Murphy and I sat at his kitchen table one night in February. We talked a little about baseball and a lot about life, ...

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Eid al-Fitr is celebrated with joy around the world, but not in the conflict zones of the Middle East, which are under attack ...

The Lebanese army completed its deployment on Wednesday in the Lebanese section of the border town of Housh al-Sayed Ali, ...

As Syria braces for a historic Eid al-Fitr celebration, this year’s festivities carry profound meaning. For the first time in ...

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, the first without Bashar Assad in power.

As a result of the Assad regime crackdown ... Carnegie Middle East Center deputy director Mohanad Hage Ali, pointed out in a report published earlier this month. "In northern Syria, the Captagon ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Syria’s conflict started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators known as the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad crushed the largely peaceful protests and a civil war erupted. Half a ...

A mobile phone shop owner who lived in an Alawite neighbourhood of Homs, Ali had already been attacked before, soon after Assad was toppled in a lightning offensive by Islamist-led rebels in December.

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

Ali Sheha, a resident of Baniyas who fled with his family and ... Sheha called the attacks “revenge killings” of the Alawite minority for the crimes committed by Assad's government. Other residents ...