US intelligence agencies assessed in recent weeks that Hezbollah, even amid Israel's military campaign, had begun to recruit new fighters and was trying to find ways to rearm through domestic ...

The Middle East burns…  When on November 24, a U.S.-mediated ceasefire was brokered between Lebanon and Israel, many did not ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is under growing strain as his army suffers setbacks, the economy deteriorates, his support wanes and his government's foreign backers are focused elsewhere.

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria's hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring ...

Satellite imagery shows Russia relocated vessels from Syria's port of Tartus, raising questions about Moscow's help for its ...

But, following a ceasefire agreement negotiated in 2020 by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir ...

Two rebel groups are leading the push. One is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ), which emerged from al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Iran that the United States would “act forcefully” to protect Americans, after the U.S.

Even as Israel bombarded Syria, officials say the U.S. and Gulf countries were working to weaken its president’s alliance ...

Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his image and the insurgency he ...

A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel ...