Welcome to our live blog bringing you the latest developments from across West Asia. Stay updated on key shifts in regional ...

Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major escalation, when Israel said it attacked Syria to protect the Druze, an Arab ...

Israel will apply its updated defense doctrine, its regional superpower prism, of preventively downgrading enemy capabilities ...

Occasionally, it is useful to take a step back from the breakneck-speed flow of daily news with its never-ending fare of ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

American diplomacy has a unique opportunity to facilitate a lasting peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon, as the recent ceasefire and disarmament of Hezbollah have created a political vacuum ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon has no plans to have normal relations with Israel at the present time, and Beirut’s main aim is to reach a ...

Joseph Aoun called on Israel to withdraw its troops from five occupied localities in the south of his country to let the Lebanese army complete its deployment on the southern border ...

He backed Israel’s counteroffensive into Gaza, and later Lebanon and Syria, even as the Palestinian casualties mounted and American progressives revolted. Biden did occasionally rebuke Israel for ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 signaled a shift in Lebanon-Syria relations. While the two countries have long had political, economic and security ties, they now must navigate a new ...

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran supports Lebanon’s efforts to pressure Israel to end its military presence in parts of the country, including diplomatic moves to expel those he called ...

Nawaf Salam, Prime Minister of Lebanon and former President of the International Court of Justice, said in an interview with CNN in Dubai this week that his country’s normalization of relations ...