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Who are Alawites, and why are they being targeted in Syria? An ambush on a Syrian security patrol near Latakia by pro-Assad gunmen has ignited days of clashes, leading to over 1,000 deaths and ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

The Israeli right wing’s long term ambitions for Gaza loom over the Trump administration’s more immediate interventions in the Middle East. U.S. negotiators are pursuing direct talks with ...

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis will resume attacks on Israeli shipping if aid supplies to Gaza do not resume in four days, the rebels' leader said on Friday. "If the Israeli enemy continues after the ...

March 9, 2025 • A human rights group characterized the killings as executions and massacres, carried out in revenge against the Alawite community, which made up Assad's longtime base of support.

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A historian and a chef discover a 1,000 year-old Arab cookbook from Baghdad and how its recipes reached southern Spain. Video shows officials from Ukraine and the United States meeting in Saudi ...

Many Syrians would like to see the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in the east lay down their weapons or join what they hope will become a national army. But Kurdish leaders say they want to negotiate ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday slammed what he described as bullying tactics a day after US President Donald Trump threatened military action against Iran.