Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Jan. 9, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a ...

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a ...

Lebanon's lawmakers on Thursday elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president after a two-year vacancy in the position, in a ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

This report on the disastrous state of the Ukrainian military was submitted to the WSWS by underground journalists from the ...

The call, combined with various promises of economic and constitutional support to the Islamist regime led by Hayat Tahrir al ...

Ad Policy Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime and the New Year’s Eve in the capital, Damascus, on December ...

Israel continues to bomb several areas across Gaza killing scores, while Israel is still stalling over reaching ceasefire ...

The WFP revealed one of its clearly marked aid convoys was hit with at least 16 bullets, no staff was injured.

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

A portrait of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is ... He shed his uniform in the street. Damascus, the capital, fell to the rebels that night. The collapse of Assad’s government came more ...

On the eve of his capital’s fall, Bashar al-Assad climbed into a Russian ... coffee cups half-drunk and military uniforms scattered on the street. By midnight, the then Syrian president was ...