Syria

Turkey says new Israeli government will test whether hostility outlasts Netanyahu

Turkish intelligence chief says Ankara does not seek a conflict with Israel but new government should seek to defuse tensions

Can Baghdad finally resolve the crisis in Sinjar?

Israeli Elections

Eisenkot or Netanyahu: No matter who forms government, democracy is dead

David Hearst

Syria after Assad

US envoy accuses Druze sheikh of using its backing to persecute other members of the community

The resilience of the world economy is built on illusion - it's time the West woke up

Marco Carnelos

Houthi forces warn against use of Saudi airports following Riyadh attack

Attacks by 'Iran’s proxies' pushing region into spiral of violence, says EU on Riyadh airport strike

US and Lebanon hosting Syrian general wanted for war crimes: Report

Syria after Assad

Supporters of Druze faction raise Israeli flags in Sweida on 7 October anniversary

US politicians insist that Assad must go, but how?

Israeli Elections

Helping Netanyahu: Why Lindsey Graham declared occupied Golan as Israeli

Bill Law

Kurdish forces say dozens of Islamic State fighters killed as battle for Baghouz rages

US military now preparing to leave as many as 1,000 troops in Syria: Report

Syrian force says 'thousands' still inside last Islamic State pocket

Defiant or repentant, Islamic State's foreign women have no hope of return

Protest, torture, siege, displacement: The Syrian revolution through a rebel's eyes

France repatriates 'several' young children from camps in northern Syria

US-backed Syrian forces deny deal to send Islamic State captives to Iraq

On Syrian uprising anniversary, $7bn raised in Brussels falls short of UN target

Eight years on: Syrians' sense of betrayal will persist for generations

Samer Abboud

In pictures: The children who have defined the war in Syria