AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years,  Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict , the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of  President Bashar Assad , various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces. But as the conflict...

In the past six months, Syria has experienced the worst surge of violence since 2020, the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said on Monday. During that time, it added, various forces have targeted civilians and essential infrastructure across...

The Israeli army raided several cities and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank early Monday morning, according to Palestinian local sources. Witnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army stormed towns in Bethlehem and Hebron, as well as the cities of Ramallah, Al-Bireh, and Qalqilya....

(THE CONVERSATION) In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border...