United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...

The country’s new leaders have made early gestures of reconciliation. But civil society is preserving the basis for a just ...

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...

From Syria to Libya to Georgia, Putin's grip on his global empire is loosening. Thus far only Turkey and Israel benefit. Will ...

The world has watched in horror as fires continue to raze parts of Los Angeles, California. For those of us living in ...

Yes, dollars circulated in authoritarian, murderous Syria because market goods did. And market goods, services and labor ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Damascus on Saturday in a bid ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...

With the downfall of the old Syrian regime, countries like Germany which welcomed Syrian refugees are now talking about ...

Earth continues to break temperature records, but if it doesn't feel that way, you might be experiencing this subtle mind ...

A Syrian former equestrian champion has told how he was jailed and tortured for 21 years after he beat Bashar al Assad's older brother in a competition. Adnan Kassar, once a celebrated figure in ...