Middle East

The wording alone suggests the gravity of the situation. Until the end of 2014, the German government’s regular dispatches on Afghanistan…

A Russian military cargo plane crashed near an air base in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 39 Russian servicemen on…

Air strikes by Russia and a US-led coalition killed civilians in Syria on a large scale last year, while the…

A US-backed alliance of Syrian forces announced on Tuesday it would redeploy around 1,700 fighters from front lines against the…

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says the country plans to establish camps in nine locations in northern Syria to house people displaced…

Ibrahim Alhasbani is like generations of Middle Eastern immigrants in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn: he fled war, came with…

Turkey on Monday asked German authorities to detain and extradite Salih Muslim, the founder and former co-chair of Syria’s Democratic…

In 2010, Kurdish singer Rojda was sentenced to one year and eight months in jail: Her songs were declared “terrorist…

In a hospital in Eastern Ghouta, Bassam Bakri, an anesthesiologist is describing the suffering. “[Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad is bombing…

An international convoy has cut short its mission to Syria’s rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta after delivering desperately needed aid…