On the heels of the Israeli-Egyptian war in 1973, the situation in the Israel-Syria sector became increasingly unstable in ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

where it often snows and peacekeepers conduct patrols thanks to specialised winter season equipment. The area is inhabited and has historically been policed by the Syrian authorities. No military ...

DEIR SHMAYEL, Syria — In the mountains east of Syria’s Mediterranean coast, armed patrols root out Assad loyalists, masked gunmen monitor checkpoints and residents fret every strange face coul ...

Syria’s new authorities are using Islamic ... In Idlib, which HTS has dominated since 2017, the group initially carried out patrols to enforce strict Islamist views on public behavior, said ...

25 January 2025 — More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in the Golan, a demilitarised zone along the Israel-Syria border at what is a tense and dangerous time in the history of ...

The US ANG saw an increase in deployments after 9/11 as the Air Force hunted down threats before they could reach the United ...