Lebanon risks being taken over by regional powers unless Beirut acts to address Hezbollah’s weapons stockpiles, the US ambassador to Turkey warned on Friday. Tom Barrack, who also serves as the US ...

Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing— thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Israel.Israeli officials are divided over whether to seize the moment and pursue a security ...

A core misconception about Israel’s policy since Oct. 7 is that the country has favored military action at the expense of diplomacy. The truth is that it’s Israel’s decisive battlefield victories that ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

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

Turkey plans to collaborate with Azerbaijan’s SOCAR to supply Syria with natural gas and electricity. Turkish Energy Minister ...

Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday that Azerbaijan's SOCAR could become a partner in Turkey's ...

Alparslan Bayraktar noted that the state oil company of Azerbaijan Socar may become Turkey's partner in this project ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the ...

Hamas said on Wednesday it has agreed to release 10 captives under ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, saying ...