Middle East watchers say the best hope for Israel is that two of its enemies weaken but don’t destroy each other.

Makers craft the soap using traditional knowledge and skills, said Unesco, adding they rely on a mix of natural, locally ...

Syria’s Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was a beleaguered jihadist force fighting to survive after years of attacks by the Russian-backed Assad reg ...

Gideon talks to FT contributing editor Kim Ghattas about the rebel advances in Syria that have taken place in the wake of Israel’s bombardment of President Bashar al-Assad’s Hizbollah allies in ...

Turkey's interior minister cautioned that Aleppo might not be safe yet for Syrian refugees seeking to return following the ...

A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama countryside, where ...

The fighting around Hama follows a lightning offensive by rebels headed by the hardline Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who in a ...

But, following a ceasefire agreement negotiated in 2020 by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir ...

The leader of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group has toured the seized city of Aleppo in a surprise visit, for the first ...

The rebels have set their sights on the city of Hama, where President Bashar al-Assad’s government has long maintained ...

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.

Syrian opposition fighters have pushed back government forces around Aleppo in a surprise offensive, rapidly expanded the ...