In Gaza and Syria, journalists and activists feel Facebook censors their speech, flagging inoffensive Arabic posts as terrorist content. In India and Myanmar, political groups use Facebook to incite violence. All of it frequently slips through the company’s efforts to police its social...

Palestinian group Hamas said Sunday that it had reached out to the UN as well as officials in Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on securing the release of its members being held in Saudi Arabia. In a statement, Hamas said its leader Ismail Haniyeh had communicated...

The Iranian regime continues to exert a considerable amount of influence in Syria. Will the region witness any changes in Iran’s policy toward Syria under the presidency of Ebrahim Raisi? And what are the broader regional implications?   As a core hard-liner, Raisi sees Syria...

Child abandonment has surged in northern Syria due to the continuous instability and the high costs of living in the war-torn country. As many parents have abandoned their children in the streets, hoping someone would look after them, a new generation of children with unknown parents has...