An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, ...

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Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.

Surge in strikes have strained truce between Israel and Hezbollah. While insurgents in Syria make fresh gains against forces ...

The US and NATO-backed war for regime change in Syria, launched in 2011, has been revived. Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbour ...

Lebanon’s Health Ministry and state media say Israeli forces have carried out several new drone and artillery strikes in ...

Israel’s economy minister Nir Barkat highlighted the challenge posed by Iran and its proxies in West Asia. He emphasized ...

The consequences of recent events in the Middle East and their impact on the military balance. Thomas L. Friedman shares his ...

Defence Minister Israel Katz warned Tuesday that if a ceasefire reached last week collapses, Israel will penetrate deeper ...

The Treasury announced the sanctioning of 35 entities and vessels on Tuesday that have shipped oil from Iran to foreign ...

Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the ...

Some violations of the truce, and some amount of violence, are to be expected, analysts say, and do not necessarily mean the ...