Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who enjoys U.S. approval and showing the diminished sway of the ...
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...
Around a decade ago, the Islamic State became a major actor in the Middle East and aimed to establish an Islamic Caliphate. Though it has now declined, continued lone attacks in Western nations stem ...