(Reuters) - Syria is wagering that Islamic State's push to reshape the Middle East will eventually force a hostile West to deal with President Bashar al-Assad as the only way to tackle the threat. While Assad's forces escalate their fight with Islamic State militants in the...

(Reuters) - With minorities facing death and persecution at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , Lebanon's Christians must lay aside their rivalries and agree on who should fill the vacant presidency, a leading Druze politician has warned. Walid Jumblatt, the...

Obama’s new Iraq war began modestly. By the end of his press conference on Saturday, though, it got a bit bigger. President Barack Obama’s war in Iraq just got more ambitious.  Speaking to reporters before departing for a two week vacation with his family on Martha’s...

With American bombs again falling over Iraq—this time striking Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, recently renamed the “Islamic State”) positions near the Kurdish city of Irbil—the White House is finally bowing to the inevitable conclusion that this terror group...