All signs of life have disappeared from the bombed-out houses and empty streets of the Lebanese border town of Naqoura, but ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Fifteen months of attacks by Iran’s axis of resistance on Israel have proved to be a staggering strategic misjudgement that ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet ...

Even before the American action, foreign economists believed the Iranian economy won’t get moving again for another decade. Now it is going to take even longer, and most Iranians were extremely angry ...

It is the Iranian-controlled Iraqi militias (Popular Mobilization Forces, PMF or PMU) that may be the most difficult Iranian ...

Analysts say priorities extend beyond anti-ISIL mission and include keeping leverage as Syria’s future takes shape.

U.S. troops served several purposes while the country was mired in civil war: they interdicted Iran’s access to Syrian territory to resupply Hezbollah in Lebanon ... that the SDF would retreat to ...