My friend Safire began a tradition 41 years ago of a year-end quiz about what’s ahead in the new year, and I’ve tried to keep ...

The ongoing struggle for power in Syria has significant implications not just for the Middle East, but for the global geopolitical landscape as a whole. As Bashar al-Assad's regime weakens, the ...

BEHIND THE LINES - Ankara appears set on a two-sided strategy to unify Syria under the rule of its Sunni Islamist client ...

MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Russia has expressed readiness to supply gas to the EU, Moscow is open to negotiations with Trump on the Ukraine conflict, and the Syrian opposition recently engaged in ...

Makki was a close aide of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, and the deputy chief of the organisation behind the Mumbai ...

Syria has faced sanctions for decades, a situation that began long before the 2011 Arab Spring protests. Reconstruction ...

Voters’ choices in what was a record year for national elections will likely have the biggest impact on global prosperity in ...

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the ...

Every single leader—from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas to the last of the minor P.A. officials and terrorists—have said and ...

A number of universities in the United States have advised international students to return early from winter break ahead of ...

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December ...

The former prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, has died at the age of 92. He was the country's first Sikh prime minister ...