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Assad, for all his many flaws, was also seen in Washington as a counterbalance to the jihadists that would take over the country ...

When Syria was a French colony between the world wars, the French favored the Alawites as part of a divide and rule policy ...

As Syria's frontlines froze, few outside experts could imagine ways the deadlock might break, but today we have an answer ...

Now Trump is back, people in Afghanistan and many in exile are clutching at a limpid hope that the president will come to the rescue.

Today, Syria's humanitarian crisis is worse than it has ever been -- with 90 percent of Syrians living under the poverty line ...

Feldstein took documents and decided to leak them to the media for political advantage. First he passed them to Israeli journalists ...

Are Hezbollah really going to accept the word of an American general as the arbiter of whether the truce has been breached?

Nothing is yet confirmed, but it appears that a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah is imminent. The fighting, which began on ...

Had the ICC sat in judgement on the war against the Nazis, it would have issued arrest warrants for Churchill and Eisenhower ...

Policies that seem on the surface to run counter to themselves can exist together. Iran is perfectly able to talk nice and play dirty ...