Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Israel of sowing divisions in Syria in a bid to “dynamite” the “revolution” that toppled Bashar al-Assad. Turkey is a key backer of Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa whose group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led the opposition...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Thursday it is ready to enter into talks with the Lebanese government on a national defense strategy.

Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials told Reuters. The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued...

A senior US envoy visited Beirut on Saturday amid a fragile ceasefire with Israel and mounting US pressure on Lebanon to rein in the militant Hezbollah group, urging the Lebanese army to assert control over all national territory and prevent arms smuggling along the Syrian border. Deputy US...