One year after Assad's fall, Iran grapples with the collapse of its key regional ally. Tehran lost up to 50 billion dollars ...

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

The United States has issued an urgent demand to the Lebanese government for the immediate return of an intact GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) discovered in Beirut, triggering a geopolitical ...

Just six months after the Trump administration said it would begin drawing down U.S. forces in Syria, the U.S. confirmed this week it will also begin reducing the number of U.S. forces in Iraq under ...

As missiles by Iran and Israel criss-cross their Arab neighbours igniting concerns of a widespread regional conflict, Syria has so far remained officially silent. This despite the missiles from both ...

Syria and Azerbaijan pledged to deepen ties, including a landmark Azerbaijani gas export deal via Turkey. Iranian media warned of a potential redeployment of Syrian fighters into the Caucasus, ...

Israel’s cross-border clash with Iranian and Syrian forces on Saturday was a sharp escalation of long-brewing hostilities along its northern frontier — and a bracing alert to those who have focused on ...

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani with Iraqi Shiite militiamen in Anbar province in May 2015. Iran-backed Iraqi militias launched missile attacks against three ...

Welcome back to the Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking at why ...