President Donald Trump appears to want Turkey to play a bigger role in the region, despite its poor human rights record toward the Kurds and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing antipathy ...

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The head of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday issued a warning to a senior party official to back away from plans ...

Trump's administration has warned that there could be "serious consequences" regarding Russia's plan to build a naval base in ...

Assad’s regime collapsed, Israel’s military activity in Syria has grown increasingly aggressive. The Israel Defense Forces ...

Russian plans for a naval base in Sudan to secure a foreign port are alarming the U.S. and risking new tensions with Moscow ...

By bnm Gulf bureau US troops and military equipment have begun withdrawing from a US military base in al-Shaddadi in Syria's ...

Ahmed al-Shara said his government was discussing military support with Russia and Turkey, appealed for a lifting of ...

Axis of Resistance militia Uli al-Baas explained to Newsweek why "the American presence has become weaker than before" in ...

The Trump administration's withdrawal of troops from Syria shifts some responsibility for countering ISIS to its partners and ...

The arrests marked a pendulum swing for the government. Under the Assad regime, Syria served as a base of operations for ...

Russia, of course, was cited as another reason to continue the status quo. If the U.S. departed, the argument went, the ...