Mr Sharaa makes such history hard to forget. He once waged jihad against American occupiers in Iraq and spent five years in Iraqi prisons. In Shia-majority Iraq, where Iran, the Middle East’s leading ...

Analysts are divided over whether a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from both Syria and Iraq will ultimately transpire ...

Syria defies Russia in bid to keep Assad in power even as the two allies prepare an offensive to retake Aleppo. Putin Backs Assad, Says Russian Warplanes Could Redeploy to Syria in Hours Russian ...

Iraq's top security official met with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday, to "put Assad in the picture of the latest developments in Iraq," the Syrian state news agency SANA ...

FILE PHOTO: Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech on the first anniversary of Bashar al-Assad's fall, in Damascus, Syria December 8, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo Jan 22 ...

Abdul-Razzaq Ahmad Saryoul began publishing books in Syria in 2003 but he used to abstain from participating in the annual ...

Bashar al-Assad is living in Moscow under tight restrictions imposed by Russia nearly a year after fleeing Syria, with his movements limited and public appearances banned, according to multiple ...

Mohammed bin Issa Al Jaber did not emerge from Iraq wealthier. He emerged with his thesis intact. In the crowded arena of Middle Eastern power politics, where ideology is often a veneer for commercial ...