Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

Libya is a Greater Prize for Putin Libya has Africa’s largest proven oil reserves and, just as in Syria, the Russians are competing with Islamist Turkey for control over the country (ostensibly ...

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In Washington, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discusses strengthening bilateral relations and Gaza reconstruction ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate ...

The move sends a positive message that Syria is no longer a global outcast, while the phased implementation holds HTS to ...

This is believed to be the first confirmation that British forces are still operating in Libya following UK involvement ... least two separate incidents in Syria. In a further telling instance ...

It has been ten years since widespread protests erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen, in addition to smaller-scale ones in a few other Arab countries, with the protests as a whole ...