Further reading: New leader in Syria meets with Christian community representatives At the Umayyad Mosque, the new power has taken care to alternate preachers and currents. However, the most ...

As the de facto ruler of Damascus, HTS has attempted to rebrand itself as a moderate group capable of governance, seeking to distance itself from its history of extremism and terrorism. However, Syria ...

The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa at the presidential palace in Ankara in Turkey on Tuesday to discuss Syria’s economic recovery and ...

Israel is building military bases in Syria, a local leader told the Washington Post. Mohammed Muraiwid, the mayor of Jubata al-Khassab, told the Post that Israeli bulldozers tore down fruit trees ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

BAGHDAD — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials ...

The big question is to what extent Syria’s new rulers ... week when a HTS-Uzbek fighter guarding Damascus’s main Umayyad mosque made some, it would be fair to say, unguarded comments about ...