In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how hard-line Iranian media have reacted to President Donald Trump’s historic meeting with Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia.

Jerusalem Post Middle East Iran had imperial ambitions in Syria, secret embassy documents show why it failed Huge projects were stymied early by corruption, sanctions and money problems, and the ...

After ousting Assad, Syria’s new rulers have been stamping out the “land bridge” that Iran used to project regional power by arming Hezbollah and other allies.

Middle East updates: Syria, Iran at focus of EU meetings Published 03/17/2025 last updated 03/17/2025 Germany has pledged €300 million in aid to support Syrians ahead of an EU donor drive to ...

However, Iran, having watched its loose network of regional allies and proxies unravel over the past year, has little to offer Syria. "Even their oil doesn't carry much value when links to the ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

Iran has pulled out nearly all of its forces from Syria following the rebels' victory against the Assad regime, dealing a major blow to Tehran's influence in the region, officials said.

Syrian rebels chose this moment to strike, knowing that Iran was also stretched too thin with the Israel-Hezbollah war to come to Assad’s aid. The domino effect has resulted in the unraveling of ...

The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad regime’s collapse disables a critical node in Iran’s regional proxy network.

Iran finds itself isolated after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which upended the Middle East by dismantling the “Axis of Resistance” – an informal, Iran-led alliance uniting Syria ...

Tehran, Iran – Iran has continued to voice support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as opposition fighters carry on with a blistering military offensive that aims to overthrow the government ...