Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

The American mainstream media may have some ability to get away from government policy talking points when covering domestic ...

Alex Garland's "Civil War" follow-up, "Warfare," screened for the first time in Hollywood to a crowd of real life veterans.

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] ...

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

CAMP MURRAY, Wash. - As U.S. service members rolled into Iraq in March 2003, a young girl looked on, watching with excitement ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

While parts of the Middle East are inherently water scarce, tensions in the region and governance issues have brought the ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...