Israel has started the first phase of military withdrawal from southern Lebanon under the terms of the US- and ...

U.N. peacekeepers' "freedom of movement is severely constrained in the current context," a U.N. official told Newsweek.

The full consequences of the country’s abrupt regime change won’t be known for years, but it’s already shaking up global politics.

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike Wednesday in the country’s south killed one person, amid a fragile ceasefire ...

Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee minority ...

Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

Following the collapse of the Assad regime, Iran's grasp on power in the region may be drastically affected.

The Zaynab shrine in Damascus is revered by Shia muslims around the world. It’s such an important religious site, Shia ...

Speaking hours after al-Assad fled Syria on Sunday, US President Joe Biden claimed the end of al-Assad’s rule was partly due to US backing for Israel’s war on Gaza and its fight against Hezbollah in ...

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

Shortly before Sunni Islamist-led rebels swept into the Syrian capital, Iran-backed guards fled their positions at the gates ...