Two suicide bombers killed a prominent figure from the Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al Sham when they blew up a local headquarters in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, rebel sources and a monitor said on Monday. They said Sheikh Abu Abdul Rahman al Salqeeni was killed along...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signaled on Tuesday he expected more support from his top regional ally Iran in the wake of a nuclear deal that includes Western states that have backed the insurgency against him. Rebels fighting Assad expressed concern that the deal would expand...

Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed a step toward a "more hopeful world" and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said it proved that...

By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- Consider two heart-wrenching scenes that recently emerged from Syria. The first one is of children lining up behind 25 soldiers in the historic city of Palmyra, pointing pistols at the soldiers’ heads. The second is of a child killed in his Aleppo home by a...