No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to more than 3m Syrian refugees, and wants Syria to be safe enough for many to ...

The new administration's approach to governing must include "different groups" and women, and "no radicalization", the ...

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian poet and dissident, was detained in Lebanon earlier this month and extradited to the United Arab Emirates ... to go and fight in Syria after the start ...

Syria's interim Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani, who has repeatedly called for lifting long-standing sanctions, attended ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

Today, the President of the United Arab Emirates, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, welcomed President Abdel Fattah ...

In yet another piece of the jigsaw puzzle of a new Middle East, Mr. As-Sudani sees reining in the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite ...

Foreign ministers from Arab and Western countries held a meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday to discuss the situation in Syria following last month’s fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar ... The meeting is the first to include both Syria’s new rulers and top Western officials and will be led by Saudi ...