The perpetrators were known to ASIO, the domestic spy agency, and appear to have been active in an extremist milieu that included supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organisation.

Despite public displays of defiance, Hezbollah is weaker than ever before—and the rest of Lebanon is united in opposition to its continued militancy.

Though tied by a strong Kurdish identity and goals of increased cultural and political autonomy, Kurdistan is fractured both along state and political lines.

The Islamic State group has branded the Syrian government ‘apostate’ and urged attacks as the SDF holds army integration talks and northeast camps remain open.

Islamic State militants killed four Syrian government security personnel in northern Syria on Monday, the Syrian state news agency reported, in what would be the group's deadliest attack on government ...

LNG has become a central tool of energy statecraft, and locking in long-term U.S. supply underscores Riyadh’s strategic ...

Syria's well-known TV dramas are returning to Ramadan screens as the industry tries to rebuild after years of war and the ...

I was ready to break free of my father and question everything I had been taught as a daughter and as an Alawite. Robert F.

If simmering tensions with Iran produce another U.S. strike, Tehran has signaled it’s ready to take the gloves off this time, ...

Since the start of Ramadan, Israeli military attacks in Lebanon have intensified in ways that suggest more than routine ...

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Casualty data in the Gaza war” from the Hamas-run health ministry show “why Israel’s critics have been flailing since the end of the war,” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel.