The US has announced a $500m aid package for Ukraine, including air defence missiles and ammunition. Meanwhile, around 113 people are injured after a Russian bomb attack in the Ukrainian city of ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

Wide-ranging international sanctions make it a crime to work with Syria's former government. But should it be a crime to work with the new one? That's a question aid organizations, civil society ...

Assad’s flight from Syria marks the end of an era, but the country’s fragmented future is now being shaped by competing ...

The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza, particularly in the north of the ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...

The German and French foreign ministers are heading to Damascus to send what the German minister said is a clear signal that a “political new beginning” between Europe and Syria is possible.

The French and German foreign ministers are the most senior Western officials to visit Syria since longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by rebels.

Israel, they insist, is a victim of duplicitous diplomacy, mainly by Arab countries, that condemn its acts of self-defence in ...

Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz that proposed ...

Sydney welcomed in 2025 as the self-proclaimed “New Year’s capital of the world”, spraying nine tonnes of fireworks from its ...