As an al-Qaida fighter in Iraq, he was detained by the American military. As the leader of a U.S.-designated terror group fighting in Syria’s civil war, he had a $10 million bounty on hi ...

Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some ...

By James M. DorseyWelcometo The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey, a media initiative focused on theMiddle East and the Muslim World that seeks to empower readers, listeners, andviewers to form ...

"We want to want to be sure that he is not a terrorist anymore," senior Israeli official told Newsweek of Syria's Ahmad al-Sharaa.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says President Trump "made a very good move" in meeting with Syria's interim president and announcing he would lift sanctions on Israel's neighbor.

Christians—some 380 million spanning 190 countries—face persecution of a unique breadth and intensity, with few advocates as powerful as the U.S.

An end to U.S. sanctions on Syria is expected to mark a new era for an economy devastated by 13 years of war, opening the way for investment flows from the Syrian diaspora, Turkey, and Gulf states ...

Sharaa, earlier known as Abu Mohammed al Joulani, had been imprisoned at Abu Ghraib as a member of the Iraqi ISIS faction.

P resident Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, May 13, that he plans to end the U.S. sanctions imposed on Syria, which have ...

Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own ...

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict did not have to be the way it has been. And perhaps this means it does not have to be this ...