Campaign posters have sprung up across Damascus as Syria prepares to hold a parliamentary election in government-held areas on Monday that is designed to renew the ruling Baath party’s grip on power. It will be the fourth election to Syria’s largely rubber-stamp parliament since civil...

An Israeli airstrike on northwestern Syria caused material damage, local media reported on Tuesday. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said that "an Israeli aggression targeted one point in the vicinity of Baniyas city at an early hour of Tuesday." It added that the Israeli airstrike...

At least four Palestinians were killed and one was injured on Friday during an Israeli forces’ storming of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that “four martyrs and one seriously injured person arrived at the Jenin Governmental...

Here we go again. Since shortly after the beginning of Syria’s civil war, countries faced with the prospect of hosting Syrian refugees  have touted the idea  of “safe areas” within Syria to which refugees could be returned, despite the fact that such zones historically  have...