Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

Over the next three decades, Khamenei turned Iran around into as assertive power wielding influence across the Middle East. One major boost was the U.S.’s 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein, which ...

Foreign Sec David Lammy meets Syria's Ahmed Al-Sharaa as he arrives in Damascus. The Foreign Secretary became the first UK ...

In a park overlooking Damascus, 25-year-old Khaldoun Hallak has spent the past few evenings with his friends, drinking yerba mate, snacking on nuts, smoking hookah pipes and watching the sky for ...

Trump’s Syria strategy aims to enable US military withdrawal while weakening Iran’s influence, pressuring Hezbollah, and ...

Israel has emerged as an unchallenged military power, Iran and its “axis of resistance” are in disarray, and the foes, for ...

Let’s be careful, though. Sure, we don’t want to reject a hand that’s extended in peace, but we also can’t assume we’re ...

Pope Leo XIV is urging the warring sides in the Israel-Iran war to “reject the logic of bullying and revenge.” ...

Let us listen to this voice that comes from on High:” the Chicago-born pope said. “Heal the lacerations caused by the bloody ...

The Islamic State is believed to be behind a deadly suicide bombing that happened at a Greek Orthodox church in Syria on ...

At 2:10 a.m. in Iran yesterday, the U.S. entered the war, stoking fears of a dangerously escalating conflict across the Middle East. American warplanes and submarines bombed three of Iran’s ...

For days, Syrians have watched as Iranian missiles and Israeli interceptors light up the skies over their territory, but the new government in Damascus has so far remained officially silent on the ...