Syrian Civil Defense units, supported by teams from neighboring countries, remain deployed across the affected areas, to contain the blazes and limit environmental damage. The fires, which started in ...

Tensions are rising between Syria and Lebanon after Damascus informally demanded the handover of thousands of Syrian prisoners, some of whom were convicted on terrorism charges. Security sources in ...

Reports that Syria's interim president is threatening action over thousands of Syrians still held in Lebanese prisons have ...

IS-related arrests in Lebanon have sparked debate over the country’s security landscape and the seriousness of the threat.

AMOS YADLIN is Founder and President of MIND Israel. He is a retired Major General in the Israeli Air Force and served as the ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters clad in camouflage fatigues burned their weapons in a large cauldron in northern Iraq on Friday, in a symbolic gesture marking the first concrete step in an effort to ...

BEIRUT -- Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut’s main aim is to reach a “state of no war” with its southern neighbor, the country’s president said ...

A core misconception about Israel’s policy since Oct. 7 is that the country has favored military action at the expense of diplomacy. The truth is that it’s Israel’s decisive battlefield victories that ...

The Middle East moves slowly, so don't be surprised if the new dawn everybody is talking about doesn't come to fruition.

The UN-backed plan to get Syrians to return from Lebanon will provide financial incentives to help kickstart the initiative.

For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...

Israel’s goal is to collapse Lebanon through triggering civil war and any move to normalize ties with Tel Aviv would ...