The new year would surely be better than how we had been treated by the recent past with its pandemics and economic tribulations. One hopeful sign, however, was that more than 70 nations had elections ...

Reform or Repression? Saudi Arabia's execution tally hit a record 330 in 2024, raising questions about Crown Prince Mohammed ...

Moreover, the US and Israel had limited direct involvement in Syria compared to other actors like Russia and Iran prior to the fall of Assad. Khamenei’s remarks may be rooted in the fact that Iran and ...

Iran’s appeal to Chinese policymakers has declined with the near annihilation of its status in the Middle East. What’s next ...

There’s not a whole lot of moral clarity available in the treacherous political and historical landscape of Syria, except ...

The superpower among the radical Islamist segment of the Middle East today is Iran, and Syria is one of several ... Studies at Tel Aviv University, compared Iran to an octopus with Hamas ...

Roger Carstens, the Biden administration's top official for freeing Americans held overseas, traveled to Damascus, Syria ... Two sources even compared the potential danger to the expeditionary ...

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew. The Middle Eastern and North African nations that attempted to transition to ...

Iran has long vied with Gulf states for influence over the Middle East, despite being under American sanctions. Its financiers and traders have outfoxed Western officials with a labyrinthine economic ...

On June 25, 2024, India entered the fiftieth year of the imposition of the National Emergency, a period from 1975 to 1977 during which civil liberties were suspended, press freedom restricted, ...

It’s not that Syria is unimportant to China. However, performative politics have reinforced narratives that often overstate ...

Iran is still grappling with the fallout from Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapse in Syria. It invested heavily in Assad’s rule in Damascus and likely expected it to continue for many years.