Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their ...

Syrian state television officially relaunched on Monday with a trial broadcast almost five months after the ouster of ...

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and the New Yorker three on Monday for journalism in 2024 that touched on topics ...

The appointment signals a hard-line shift as Syria's interim president struggles to assert control over fractious armed ...

Erdogan hosted an earlier round of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul in 2022, though those negotiations failed to secure a last peace and the war has raged for more than three years.

The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread mainly across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, ...

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an ...

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries will begin electing a pope this week in the most geographically diverse conclave in history ...

Syria is set to sign a deal to import electricity from Turkey through a 400-kilovolt transmission line between the two ...

Waltz’s ouster enables Trump to assert even more White House power over the decision-making process and relying on people who ...

Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted ...