In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Since Assad's ouster last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post inside an internationally patrolled buffer zone between Syria and Israel. That's where Ramadan's village is located.

The region is quite dynamic, with an intense flurry of diplomatic activity. The Middle East, and specifically Palestine, dominates the agenda. There are areas of convergence and divergence between ...

Israel and Syria have fought multiple conflicts, but for decades, the border separating the two has been largely quiet. They last went to war in 1973, when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel on Yom ...

Syria’s de facto leader said Israel no longer had any “excuse” to remain in the two countries’ buffer zone after Damascus rid itself of Iran’s presence, and stated that he would welcome ...

After the ouster of Syria's longtime leader Bashar al-Assad last month, Israel's military has taken up a new post in the ...