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The rebels who seized Damascus are trying to get a new government up and running, even as foreign powers like Israel and Turkey, and armed Syrian groups, fight for power. [...]

Opposition forces advanced on the city of Hama as their startling offensive moved quickly in the direction of the capital, Damascus. Syrian rebels stormed into the city of Hama on [...]

Thirteen months of war left Hezbollah weakened, isolated and desperate for a way to stop the fighting. For years, Hezbollah told the Lebanese that it alone could defend them from [...]

Key details still needed to be worked out between Israel and Hezbollah, and disagreements could scuttle or delay any deal, the officials said. But some cited reasons for cautious optimism. [...]

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians who escaped civil war at home over the past decade have now fled the conflict in Lebanon, seeking safety in their own shattered country. When [...]

x Getting around the West Bank is never easy, but it's a lot harder if you are Palestinian. That's no accident. We rode along on two bus trips, one for [...]

Mr. Qassem had been the Lebanese militant group's longtime deputy. He replaces Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike last month. Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, named Naim [...]

Turkey's interior minister said it was 'most probably' the Kurdistan Worker's Party that carried out the assault on the sprawling Turkish Aerospace Industries complex near Ankara. Attackers armed with explosives […]

Mr. Gulen, who lived in the United States, was accused of plotting a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in 2016. Fethullah Gulen, the preacher who founded an [...]

Extensive Israeli attacks have blown up Hezbollah munitions and killed many fighters and leaders, but the Lebanese militia is far from incapacitated, analysts say. Israeli bombs have blown up its [...]

Analysts call the killing of several Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, a deep blow to the Palestinian militant group, but expect it to keep fighting. He was there from the [...]

Yahya Sinwar, the Palestinian militant leader who emerged from two decades of prison in Israel to rise to the helm of Hamas and help plot the deadliest assault on Israel [...]

A week into the ground war between Israel and Hezbollah, shelters in Lebanon are filling up beyond capacity, humanitarian officials warned. Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli towns and fought [...]

Diplomats thought both Israel and Hezbollah supported a call for a temporary cease-fire. Then Israel killed Hezbollah's leader. Everything appeared to be heading in the right direction for a breakthrough [...]

Israel is drastically widening its fight against the Lebanese militant group that is backed by Iran, whose supreme leader said that ''any strike on the Zionist regime is a service [...]

The alliance is under scrutiny after the recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon. The death of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, in an Israeli airstrike last week has focused attention [...]

Iran united militias to take on Israel, but as the Israelis pummel one, Hezbollah, the rest have so far largely failed to come to its aid. The idea was simple: [...]

Hassan Nasrallah's killing raises questions about whether the group can strike back at Israel. But U.S. officials say it's too soon to count the group out. For more than three [...]

Hassan Nasrallah, who led the militant Hezbollah organization in Lebanon for more than three decades and built it into a domestic political force and potent regional military power with ballistic [...]

Israel said it was striking Hezbollah targets with ''high intensity'' to keep the campaign as short as possible, as the Lebanese militants maintained their own cross-border barrage. Thousands fled their [...]

Some experts said that Israel's onslaught had left Hezbollah in disarray. Others noted its large weapons stockpiles and history of adapting to battle Israel's much more high-tech military. Swaths of [...]

The events of this week seem to indicate that Israel's leaders have decided they can no longer live with the threat of Hezbollah on their northern border, analysts say. The [...]

A focus on mutual deterrence had kept intermittent clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border from spiraling into a major war. That changed this past week. For the second time in less [...]

After two days of exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, Beirut was a city on edge, with people worried there were bombs in their bags or pockets. Victims' relatives vowed retribution. In [...]

Two series of coordinated attacks targeting the group's wireless devices caused thousands of injuries, piercing the group's rank and file and raising questions about how it will respond. First, hundreds [...]

The father of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a dual citizen of Turkey and the United States, said that Washington had not done enough to pressure Israel over her death. With Turkish [...]

Turkish officials have bashed Israel and stood up for Hamas, complicating their country's place in diplomacy aimed at ending the war. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has called Prime [...]

Trying to head off a Middle East war, several countries are pressing Iran to temper its retaliation for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. Arab and Western countries, [...]

The town in south Lebanon appeared deserted, its roads empty and its market shuttered, after months of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel across the nearby border made many residents flee. [...]

As economic woes grow in Turkey, groups of men have targeted Syrian refugees there. In response, fighters across the border in northern Syria have confronted Turkish soldiers. Over the past [...]

The high temperatures blamed for the deaths of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia are taking a broad toll in countries that have spent vast sums to attract tourists and investors. The [...]

From the outskirts of his town in the West Bank, the mayor surveyed the rocky hills stretching toward the Dead Sea where Palestinians had long farmed and herded, and pointed [...]

Turkey said it would not resume trade with Israel until a ''permanent cease-fire'' in Gaza. The move came after a number of countries cut diplomatic ties with Israel. Turkey said [...]

More than 300 people were killed when temblors toppled an upscale residential complex. Survivors hope a court will punish the men who built it. The families addressed the court one [...]

More than 300 people were killed when temblors toppled an upscale residential complex. Survivors hope a court will punish the men who built it. The families addressed the court one [...]

Palestinians have long gathered and cooked khobeza, a spinach-like wild plant that sprouts after rains. Now, it has become a lifeline. As the Israeli military campaign to destroy Hamas pummeled [...]

A raft of local election victories by rivals of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governing party could serve as a check on his power. Last May, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of [...]

The opposition chalked up gains against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party in local elections across Turkey amid voter anger about the economy. The mayor of Istanbul was headed for [...]

The opposition chalked up gains against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party in local elections across Turkey amid voter anger about the economy. The mayor of Istanbul was headed for [...]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has campaigned for his party to retake Istanbul from the incumbent mayor, whom many see as a potential future president. The contest to run city hall [...]

Thirteen years ago, a poor fisherman in a small Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he heard a noise behind him and turned to find a [...]

Thirteen years ago, a poor fisherman in a small Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he heard a noise behind him and turned to find a [...]

The fear has been building for weeks. More than one million Palestinians fled into Rafah, the southernmost region of Gaza, hoping to escape the war. Now, Israel has threatened to [...]

The fear has been building for weeks. More than one million Palestinians fled into Rafah, the southernmost region of Gaza, hoping to escape the war. Now, Israel has threatened to [...]

They served cappuccinos, repaired cars and acted onstage. They raised children and took care of older parents. They treated wounds, made pizza and put too much sugar in their tea. [...]

To dull his heartache, Mustafa Abutaha told stories of people sheltering with him at Nasser hospital; he later fled before the Israeli military closed in. Israeli forces began raiding the [...]

To dull his heartache, Mustafa Abutaha told stories of people sheltering with him at Nasser hospital; he later fled before the Israeli military closed in. Israeli forces began raiding the [...]

Israel has asked the military to come up with plans to evacuate Gazans, but it isn't clear where they are supposed to go or when Israel's ground invasion might begin. [...]

As the war has raged, Ahlam Shimali has watched as people have fled fighting and destruction elsewhere in Gaza and packed into Rafah, the territory’s southernmost district, where she lives. [...]

Israel has asked the military to come up with plans to evacuate Gazans, but it isn’t clear where they are supposed to go or when Israel’s ground invasion might begin. [...]