Middle East

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...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that he intends to nominate Massad Boulos, a billionaire businessman from Lebanon who is also father-in-law to Tiffany Trump, to serve as senior adviser on...

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, including employees of the charity World Central Kitchen, with Israel saying it had targeted a militant who took...

The Syrian military announced on Saturday a temporary withdrawal of its troops in the northwestern city of Aleppo to prepare for a counteroffensive, after rebel groups launched a surprise attack...