Asharq Al Awsat A US envoy said Wednesday that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the latest round of talks, a persistent obstacle as the ...

Asharq Al Awsat A review of the embattled United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, ordered by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has identified four possible ways forward for the organization ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

The UN-backed plan to get Syrians to return from Lebanon will provide financial incentives to help kickstart the initiative.

Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world’ ...

On May 23, 2025, approximately five months after the Assad regime was overthrown, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of ...

Up to 400,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon may be set to return home under a UN-backed plan providing financial incentives, according to a document seen by The National.

Hamas’s explicit rejection of peace, compromise, and human decency makes negotiation impossible and counterproductive.

The world experienced more than 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a "historically high" number according to scholars in the ...

The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ...

The UN Security Council, established in 1945 as the cornerstone of global peacekeeping, was designed to maintain international order and respond decisively to threats against humanity. This year, as ...

Anger has been steadily building against Syria's new rulers as senior Israeli officials tout a possible normalisation deal ...