The deal, not yet formally announced, outlines a six-week initial ceasefire phase and includes the gradual withdrawal of ...

During the first phase of the accord, meant to last six weeks, Hamas will free 33 of the 98 Israeli hostages still held in ...

Israel’s 15-month bombardment of Gaza has destroyed much of Hamas’s military wing. It has also degraded the Iran-backed proxy network that helps sustain the militant group.

According to BBC News, it's great that Syria is now free, but most vital is whether the new government will allow people to ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Wide-ranging international sanctions made it a crime to work with Syria's former government. But should it be a crime to work ...

The new interim Syrian government says it will hunt down and punish senior security officials and others, but concern is ...

The Islamist rebel group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) controls large parts of Idlib Governorate. Together with various other ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...

An inside view of the Hama prison after the armed groups opposed to Bashar Assad's regime, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, took ...

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 11 people ...