President Trump has a chance to create the best opportunity for stabilizing the Middle East in decades, if he is up to it.

Oil prices jumped more than 5% on Friday to hit the highest in more than two months after Israel said it struck Iran, raising ...

As Israel's war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves with welcoming US ...

Syrian fighter pilot Ragheed Tatari was 26 when he was arrested. Now 70, the country's longest-serving political prisoner is ...

Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa will deliver Syria's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York in September, sources close to new administration in Syria said on ...

Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad both played this ... Sharaa, for all his fresh image, is drawing from the same playbook. His flirtation with normalization should be seen for what it is: an ...

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, left, Karim, right, and Hafez walk ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was always to have one of his sons ...

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 1/4). Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the pan-Arab ideological movement.

By the early 80s, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father ... The largest protests were held in the city, drawing half a million people. Abdel Basset al-Sarout, a footballer-turned-singer, addressed ...

Haj Najib and his family benefited from Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power in a military coup in 1970 ... climaxed in al-Homsi and Najib drawing weapons on each other in Shahbandar Square in Damascus. In ...

At the heart of Hafez al-Assad’s rise to power was Mohamed Deeb Daboul (known ... Daboul continued to serve as a crucial figure within the administration. Drawing on his vast experience, he helped ...