"If Israel feels that a certain leader...is an evident threat to its national security, it will operate," a former Israeli ...

One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.

TWO former slaves have issued a stark warning to the West about Syria’s new “reformer” president Ahmed al-Sharaa. Yazidi ...

The Israel Defense Force attacks regime troops affiliated with Syria’s interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, while the new ...

Hundreds of people have reportedly fled from Syria into Israel following the outbreak of violence in the south of the country ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

After a massacre perpetrated by Syrian government forces in a Druze city, the IDF launched airstrikes on behalf of its own ...

In Syria, it's been more than six months since Bashar al-Assad's regime was toppled by opposition fighters after decades in power and years of civil war. Jane Arraf covers Egypt, Iraq, and other parts ...

One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and "decide whether we should live or die".

Today's headlines: at least 60 dead in a fire in a shopping centre in Iraq; Chinese digital giant Tencent wants to shut down a website that publishes censored posts on WeChat “for copyr ...