When Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria, the farmers of al-Nashabiyah, once a hotbed of opposition to then president, struggled to water their crops because army officers diverted rivers and canals to their own farms. The farmers hoped for some reprieve after Assad’s 24 years of autocratic rule...

Vladimir Putin is eyeing the conflict between Israel and Iran as an opportunity to thrust himself to the forefront of the international stage, more than three years into his invasion of Ukraine. The Russian president has pitched himself as a possible mediator -- though Moscow’s closeness...

Israel’s military said Wednesday it struck an Iranian centrifuge production facility and multiple weapons manufacturing sites, in the latest round of strikes between the archfoes. “More than 50 Israeli Air Force fighter jets... carried out a series of air strikes in the Tehran area over...

After Zaman al-Wasl newspaper published hundreds of photos of detainees held forcibly by Assad's National Defense Forces, one of the few survivors emerged to tell the truth behind these silent numbers. Muhammad Abdullah al-Qajah, who appears in one of the photos bearing the number 402, survived...