Syria's deputy prime minister, Qadri Jamil, was dismissed from his post, state media said on Tuesday, citing government complaints about his performance and lack of coordination with other officials, Reuters reported.    Jamil had been in Geneva recently and met U.S....

  A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war   Fifteen days into his job as  Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something...

Leader of Lebanese Hezbollah movement accuses Saudi Arabia of blocking political solution to the conflict in Syria. The head of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah and key Damascus ally Hassan Nasrallah has accused Saudi Arabia of blocking a political solution to the conflict in Syria....

  Iraq is going to break up.  It is already happening, but no one wants to acknowledge it because no one wants to be perceived as being responsible for the disintegration of a major Middle Eastern country .   There is not much about the...