(Council On Foreign Relations- Philip H. Gordon) Of all the factors currently tearing the Middle East apart, none is more consequential than the war in Syria.  The war has left some 250,000 Syrians dead, seven million internally displaced, and three million forced to flee to...

More than 9,000 people have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine began, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that even though fighting had abated, millions were in precarious situations. The UN human rights office hailed "a sharp de-escalation of hostilities" in the conflict zones in...

Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian troops edged closer to a major rebel-controlled highway south of Aleppo Tuesday, pushing further into insurgent-held areas supported by heavy Russian airstrikes. After seizing a series of villages including Zitan, Humaira and Qalaajiya, the army said it...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, said its fighter who had carried out the suicide bombing against Syrian regime forces in southern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday is Turkish. Nusra said on social media that Younis al-Turkey had blown himself up in an army checkpoint...