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Eight people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of ‍the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, ...

Doha Forum 2025 brought world leaders together to confront rising global tensions, deepen EU–GCC ties and support Syria’s ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing, a new offering from the premier Arabic-first American news and commentary platform about the Middle East.. This week, we look at the seven moments and themes ...

Tensions high as an end-of-year deadline to incorporate the Kurdish-led SDF into the Syrian armed forces approaches.

Germany deported a man to Syria for the first time since the civil war broke out in that country in 2011, the interior ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke by phone with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday, discussing bilateral relations ...

Taken together, China’s approach to post-Assad Syria is defined less by opportunity than by caution. Beijing is neither ...

In the third high-profile casualty in a year, a Russian general has been killed in an explosion in a car in Moscow. Russian ...

Syria’s government and its allies have welcomed the lifting of sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress in 2019 to punish ...

This Sunday, Hungarians will head to the polls. On the surface it seems obvious that Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party is going to win an outright majority. But something is happening under the surface.

Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on ...