Syria’s Bashar Assad has been counted out before. There were times during his country’s civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and pushed more than 12 million more from their homes, when it seemed the only way forward for all the major parties involved would be for...

President Donald Trump is facing a critical decision on Israel that could alter America’s position in the Middle East and may affect his election-year support with a central part of his political base. In the coming days, Trump must decide whether to support Israeli Prime Minister...

The head of the Arab League warned a high-level UN meeting Wednesday that Israel’s annexation of parts of the West Bank would endanger Middle East peace and could ignite "a religious war in and beyond our region." Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the 22-member organization, said...

Many figures involved in the means established by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime to brutally suppress the civil war that started in March 2011 have been implicated as war criminals. War crimes committed by the Assad regime, including the use of chemical weapons, rape, torture, the...