Britain aimed to control the Holy Land on both sides of the Jordan River and Mesopotamia ... and the Vilayet of Damascus, reaching as far south as the Red Sea. Economic cohesion was equally ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

"[A] red state and a blue state ... The September hurricane caused widespread destruction from Augusta, Georgia, to Damascus, Virginia – notably swelling the banks of the Savannah, Toccoa ...

A warning has gone out to seafarers in the Persian Gulf over what appear to be attempts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to compel ships to enter Iranian waters. While Iran has a history of harassing ...

BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister stressed on Friday the need to lift sanctions on Syria during a landmark visit to Damascus, the first since Islamist ... to pull back to the north of the ...

This marked a shift from earlier efforts to normalize ties with Assad, including the reopening of embassies in 2023 and a visit by the Saudi foreign minister to Damascus in April 2023.

The two strikes both hit areas north of Lebanon’s Litani River. Under a U.N. resolution ... Al-Qubbaj phoned the Palestinian Red Crescent, pleading with the dispatcher to send rescuers for ...

In the meantime there are tents, hygiene products and medicine being sent into Gaza, said Ahmed Abdullah, the emergency coordinator in Rafah for Egypt’s Red Crescent aid group. Before the Rafah ...