With direct military conflict underway, we must ask did sanctions just postpone the inevitable while allowing adversarial and tyrannical regimes the time to strengthen their military capabilities?

Here’s what you need to know about possible normalisation between Syria and Israel: Syria and Israel have held direct talks, ...

In most cases reviewed by The National, captors demanded exorbitant ransoms that many families could not afford, while other ...

One member of the minority religious community found asylum in Europe and sends home his meager grocery story wages.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to terminate U.S. sanctions against Syria in a massive first step to ...

The intelligence is still coming in—including from a leak of an intercepted phone call between two Iranian government ...

From Africa to Asia, countries are already fighting over rivers, dams, and access to freshwater. As the world faces growing ...

First, the Islamic regime is far from collapsing, even if the mullahs are unpopular. Second, if it did collapse, Iran could ...

President Donald Trump on Monday lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, signing an executive order to carry out a promise he made in May. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters ahead of ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his final sign-off Monday to lifting longstanding US sanctions on Syria after pledging to ...

The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as ...

Nevertheless, with Iran defanged, and the benefits of ties with Israel and the U.S. looking increasingly attractive to moderate Arab countries, peace and prosperity in the Middle East appears ...