Lebanese President Michel Aoun has phoned Syria's Bashar al-Assad to discuss the demarcation of Lebanon-Syria maritime borders, according to Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe. The move came after the Syrian regime offered a Russian oil company the right to conduct oil...

Jordan's insistence that its palace feud has been resolved and its sweeping ban on media coverage may temporarily quiet dissent, but major challenges loom for the Western-allied monarchy long seen as a lynchpin of regional stability. The whereabouts of King Abdullah II's half brother,...

About 4000 Syrian tribal figures agreed on Wednesday to unify their ranks and efforts to confront the mounting abuses by the Iranian and Kurdish militias operating  in northeastern Syria.   The representatives of 132 tribes held the third general conference in the...

Russia sparred with the United States and its allies Tuesday over a vote later this month that could strip Syria of voting rights in the international chemical weapons watchdog, with Moscow accusing the West of trying to “demonize Damascus” and the U.S. demanding a strong message to...