Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million US bounty on his ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria that severed the country from the global ...

Joseph Aoun, president of neighbouring Lebanon, hailed Trump's "bold move" as another step on Syria's path towards ... covering the 2024 presidential campaign. From 2015 to 2022, he held postings ...

COLUMN. The Israeli government, after having used the Druze minority to divide the Palestinian population, is now attempting ...

In an age defined by VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—few regions illustrate this reality more vividly than the Middle East. The pace and intensity of change across the ...

Assad’s regime collapsed, Israel’s military activity in Syria has grown increasingly aggressive. The Israel Defense Forces has seized the UN-monitored buffer zone created after the 1973 Yom Kippur War ...

The mediation effort preceded Israeli strikes in Syria last week. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Lebanon and Israel. Syria's new leadership repeatedly condemned such strikes. Israel has struck in Syria for years in a shadow campaign aimed at weakening Iran and its allies, including Lebanese ...

Israel has proved to be remarkably proficient at finding and destroying many of these weapons shipments before they have reached Lebanon. In any event, Iranian power in Syria is now at a low point.

He described the violence against his community as a “campaign of extermination ... of Islam and is predominantly present across Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Wary of a new regime led by former ...

Israel has framed the strikes as a message to Syria's new rulers in response to threats against Syria's Druze, a minority sect that is an offshoot of Islam with adherents in Syria, Lebanon and Israel.