In Lebanon, many saw the election on Thursday of Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, as a crucial step ...

The parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S.

On Sept. 17, almost a year into an escalating conflict with Israel, militants in the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah heard an urgent ringtone call out from their model AR-924 pagers.

President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address. A banner of former President ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with President Hafez al-Assad intervening ...

Israeli troops withdrew from the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura on Monday, amid growing accusations from both sides of ...

Spain raised its flag at Madrid's Damascus embassy Thursday, in the presence of its top diplomat more than a decade after ...

Spain's foreign minister raised his country's flag at their Damascus embassy on Thursday more than a decade after Madrid ...

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations issued on Monday what he called a final warning to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi ...

Bashar al-Assad has gone but, as elation begins to be edged out by anxiety, what comes after authoritarianism?

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain power?