When Italy organized a conference focused on the Middle East, the Gulf and North Africa, it promised to look beyond the turmoil roiling the region and instead promote a “positive agenda”. But many of the 45 heads of state, ministers and business leaders who attended the event over...

 Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. ”The Israeli enemy launched...several surface-to-surface missiles towards a military position,“ it said,...

(Eqtsad)- “I was born in Syria, I have a Syrian identity document, and when I arrived in Egypt, I was not treated like a refuge or Syrian citizen neither by UNHCR nor by the Egyptian authorities.” These are the words of more than 5,000 Syrian Palestinians living in Egypt who were...

When Iran declared victory over Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, it hailed the “strong and pivotal” role played by Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. The praise, contained in a top general’s letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader in November, confirmed Hezbollan’s pre-eminence among...