Shortly after Denmark began telling Syrian refugees that parts of Syria are "safe" and stripped them of their temporary protected status, I talked to a 31-year-old refugee who voluntarily returned to Syria from Jordan in December 2020. He told me otherwise. Someone in the Danish government...

Syria’s military said Israel has carried out an air raid that hit a military post on the outskirts of the capital of Damascus early Wednesday, causing material damage. It was the second Israeli attack to target areas near the capital in four days. The earlier attack on Saturday activated...

A diplomatic row between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia – prompted by a senior Lebanese cabinet minister slamming the Saudi military intervention in Yemen – has raised fears that the Middle East’s geopolitical faultlines will amplify Lebanon’s already acute political and economic crises....

Pressure is mounting on Lebanese leaders to remove a Cabinet minister whose comments on the war in Yemen have triggered a diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia, even as the minister at the center of the crisis said that resigning from the government was not an option. The Kingdom, the UAE, Kuwait...