The past two years of war brought death and destruction to the Middle East, but they also created remarkable openings for change in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Sadly, those opportunities might be ...

The U.S. proposal to establish a military presence at an airbase near Damascus is a welcome sign of deepening cooperation ...

In a turn few in Washington would have […] ...

The new US–Syria relationship does not replace Washington’s Kurdish allies, but it does complicate their position.

Even as it seeks new diplomatic partnerships outside the West, Tehran's economic and political isolation is deepening. The ...

The ambush that met the Israeli forces on their way out, and the airstrikes that followed, turned the operation into a diplomatic issue stretching from Damascus to Washington.

I don’t know who came up with The Donroe Doctrine, but I am grateful for that bit of glibness. Any day now, we seem on the ...

We’re still waiting to hear the outcome of the talks, but special envoy Steve Witkoff’s sixth Moscow visit is likely not the ...

Iraq has become “an example and a model of elections,” the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) ...

Israel’s refusal to open up more humanitarian routes to allow aid into Gaza amounts to a violation of US President Donald ...