When we arrived in Haifa, we were taken off the ship first, not by UN officials, but by men who, as we later learned, were ...

In a televised speech, interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa promised to protect the rights and freedom of Syria's Druze community — and avoid an “open war” with Israel.

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Druze women from Syria and Israel bid farewell before the Syrians cross back into Syria at the Israeli-Syrian border, in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams on July 17, 2025.

Before the civil war began in 2011, Syria’s 1.5 million Christians represented about 10 percent of the nation’s population. Now as few as 300,000 may remain.

Tensions increased in southern Syria as Israeli warplanes bombed the Ministry of Defence in Damascus, areas around the presidential palace, and villages in As-Suwayda on 16 July 2025, killing at ...

Israel-Syria Tensions Escalate: Israeli Troops Cross Syrian Border Amid Fears of Full-Scale War Tensions in the Middle East are on the rise once again as Israeli military vehicles reportedly ...

The subject of “Architecton” isn’t explicitly architecture, but rather the raw materials of architecture and the ethos of waste, recklessness and destruction that drives our planetary folly of ...

A video purporting to show the execution-style murder of American Hosam Saraya raises new questions about the Trump-endorsed new Syrian leader.

This potential dynamic shift had drawn the attention of those in Egypt well before the war with Iran began. For the first time in decades, Egypt and Israel are on the brink of a standoff.

During Syria’s civil war, the Druze were split between supporting Assad, who offered them a degree of autonomy and exemption from army conscription, and his opposition.

Sweida remains scarred by a week of sectarian bloodshed that left more than 1,200 dead. Survivors on both sides recount ...