A push to stop a Melbourne council shelling out tens of thousands of ratepayer’ cash in grants to a religious organisation ...

Beirut is seeking to build a relationship on equal footing with the new authorities in Damascus, but progress has remained slow. The weight of history, particularly Syria's tutelage over Lebanon from ...

Israel has entered a new era of territorial expansionism and military aggression beyond the borders of historic Palestine.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I could ever return to Syria,’ says the musician who fled his country in 2012 ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hani Al Sawah recently walked the streets of Damascus, Syria's capital, with wide-eyed excitement. It had been 13 years since the rap artist last was in Syria.

COLUMN. Rather than accept the coexistence of Israel with a demilitarized Palestine, the Israeli prime minister has chosen to divide Palestinian territory into three distinct entities.

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power ...

The use of blessed oil has long been an established practice in the Eastern Christian tradition and continues to this day.

The Office of General Yazdanpanah criticised Western inaction regarding the situation for the Kurds in Syria, continuing: “Rojava will fall if we Kurds don’t consider their struggle as ours.” ...

The Middle East has been compared to a large bazaar. The more you get into it, the more confusing and complex it becomes.

The BBC's Lyse Doucet follows Hind Kabawat as she confronts the challenges of fragmented, post-Assad Syria.