Anyone who has spent time living in or studying the Middle East will be familiar with the work of Patrick Seale, who died last weekend in London after a battle with brain cancer. Seale was a journalist and long-term observer of the region and wrote what is still, two decades after it was...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with French media to be aired on Monday that his forces are on the road to victory after recapturing the key city of Aleppo last month. "We do not consider that (retaking Aleppo from the rebels) as a victory because victory will be when...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS launched Saturday major attack on U.S.-backed militias north of its stronghold of Raqqa province, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the western countryside, local activists said. Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and...

(Middle East Eye)- Allowing aid into besieged areas of Syria has proven to be a successful diplomatic tool for negotiating, but civilians always pay the price for these truces On 13 December 2016, Bashar Jaafari, the current permanent representative of Syria to the United Nations, declared:...