In Lebanon, many saw the election on Thursday of Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, as a crucial step ...

A new type of Syrian refugee is fleeing across the border into Lebanon: those who once supported dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

Dergham said the recent fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran who used Hezbollah fighters to stay in power, was a catastrophe for Iran and Hezbollah. Since the rebel ...

The parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S.

It was reported that the drug reached Hamas and Hezbollah via Syria. Bashar al-Assad's brother, Maher al-Assad, was responsible for overseeing Captagon production. With the Assad family now in ...

Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon for three decades under the Assad family, with President Hafez al-Assad intervening ...

Tom Nagorski is the Managing Editor for The Cipher Brief. He previously served as Global Editor for Grid and served as ABC ...

Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and Lebanon's prime minister vowed on Saturday to build lasting ties after the fall of ...

An Assad official claims Putin betrayed his ally by promising support that never came.

For years, officials in Jerusalem had banked on a relatively predictable balance of power with the neighboring regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus ... that of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Spain's foreign minister raised his country's flag at their Damascus embassy on Thursday more than a decade after Madrid ...

The foiled attack will stoke fears that Islamic State is hoping to stage a comeback in Syria following the fall last month of President Bashar al-Assad. Some Syrians and foreign powers have worried ...