Middle East

LONDON — The British government is reviewing its proscription of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) after the Islamist militant group helped sweep Syria’s Bashar al-Assad from power. U.K. Cabinet Office Minister...

After a lightning rebel advance overran Damascus and forced Syrian strongman Bashar Assad to flee, the world is trying to come to understand the latest dramatic rupture in the Middle...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Earlier this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked about recasting the Middle East and he’s done much to do so, through...

The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday as rebel troops declared the capital Damascus “free” after entering the city to scant resistance from forces of the Russia-backed regime...

German authorities foiled a potential terror attack on a Christmas market in Bavaria after a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency. The 37-year-old suspect from Iraq was arrested on Wednesday...

A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country’s second city, Aleppo– and demonstrated the growing prominence of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the 13-year-long civil war....

48 days to arm Kyiv The Biden administration is racing to send weapons to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20. An estimated $725 million in arms...

BRUSSELS — Mark Rutte, NATO’s new secretary-general, is capable of “building bridges” with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel told POLITICO ahead of a meeting of alliance...

The Middle East’s share of U.S. arms imports has declined in the past decade, thanks in large part to the U.S. policy of ensuring Israel’s qualitative military edge.  From the five-year periods...

After a four-year freeze, jihadist rebels in Syria seized control of the country’s largest city of Aleppo on Friday and Saturday, prompting Russian airstrikes across the city—allegedly including at hospitals...