Syrian interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa reportedly attended secret meetings with Israeli officials in Azerbaijan, despite denials from Damascus. The talks focused on a potential security agreement, ...

In a sign of warming ties, Syria’s new leadership is turning to Azerbaijan for support on energy, education, and post-conflict reconstruction.

For the first time in decades, Iran’s stranglehold on the Middle East has been broken. The Iran-backed network that nearly succeeded in encircling Israel — Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Iraqi ...

Lebanon risks being swallowed by regional powers unless it acts to address Hezbollah’s arms and implement reforms, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has warned.“You have Israel on one side, you have Iran on the ...

Reports that Syria's interim president is threatening action over thousands of Syrians still held in Lebanese prisons have ...

IS-related arrests in Lebanon have sparked debate over the country’s security landscape and the seriousness of the threat.

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut’s main aim is to ...

A core misconception about Israel’s policy since Oct. 7 is that the country has favored military action at the expense of diplomacy. The truth is that it’s Israel’s decisive battlefield victories that ...

For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...

Israel’s goal is to collapse Lebanon through triggering civil war and any move to normalize ties with Tel Aviv would ...