Middle East

France and Germany’s top diplomats will travel to Syria on Friday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced, and meet with the leader of rebel group HTS. The trip to Damascus...

No doubt our media rivals will run traditional end-of-year reviews bewailing how next year will suck more than the previous 12 months. But POLITICO is determinedly boosterish about 2025 and...

The U.S. Navy rescued aviators downed “in an apparent case of friendly fire” over the Red Sea early Sunday, officials at Central Command announced this weekend. Both members of the...

The epochal collapse of the Assad government, along with much of the Iranian regional network, has opened the door to a more peaceful Middle East, but has also created risks....

Shutdown watch: Troops won’t get paid over Christmas unless shutdown is averted, Pentagon officials said Thursday after Republicans bowed to tweets from Elon Musk and backed out of a spending...

The U.S. military has some 2,000 troops in Syria—more than twice the figure of 900 that the Pentagon has cited for years, a spokesman said Thursday.  The higher number includes...

Unfortunately, Ali Soufan was right. One year ago, shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s military response, Soufan told me that the events...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. He covered the Syrian civil from 2012 to 2017 for Voice of America and the Daily Beast. “Most European governments can’t wait to...

DUBLIN — Ireland’s new parliament has picked an ex-trucking boss and its first woman to be its speaker — a move that signals the next government is taking a turn...

Members of the European Parliament delivered a stern warning to world football governing body FIFA over the 2034 men’s World Cup to be held in Saudi Arabia, according to a...