Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Lebanon has appointed a new army chief and heads of three security agencies as the government seeks to firm up state ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed the Israeli Air Force conducted an air strike in Damascus on Thursday, with the military saying it had struck a "command centre" of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ...