Russia clearly wanted to pivot to work with Sharaa. It likely extended feelers long ago, recognizing HTS as a potential ...

Syria is particularly important for Iran's ability to support the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which for over a year has been embroiled in conflict with Israel. Israel has recently thrown this ...

A US-backed diplomatic push is trying to end months of Israeli attacks on Syria with a bilateral security pact. But ...

Russia is mediating between Iran and Israel while Donald Trump tries to remake the Middle East with the US-backed Gaza peace ...

Iran has built parallel military infrastructure across Syria and Iraq over decades, creating a shadow empire that security ...

Nearly a year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa discusses a fast-changing Middle East and ...

In December 2004, Jordan’s King Abdullah first warned the world of the emergence of a Sh’ia crescent that could destabilize ...

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Lebanon and Syria announced Friday the opening of a new chapter in their relations nearly 10 months after the ouster of ...

Trump celebrated the apparent destruction of Iran's nuclear program by the U.S. and Israel, and urged Tehran to make peace.

In 2006, I was able to travel to Israel for the first time. Even as a child, I had learned from my father about the spiritual ...

It has been a long time since a Western country has won a war. It can now be said that Israel has won its war on Iran and its ...