According to the Iranian diplomat, the country’s foreign policy is geared to defend national interests, ensure national security and expand economic diplomacy ...

DENNIS ROSS is Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Professor at Georgetown University. A former ...

By 2023, Assad's continued rule was increasingly accepted as a reality by regional actors, including Arab states, which allowed Syria's re-entry into the Arab League to decrease its dependency on Iran ...

The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria was truly a turning point for Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” in the Middle East. For over a decade, the Assad regime benefited from ...

Syria’s new authorities terminated a contract this week with a Russian company that had managed the port of Tartous for more than five years, further restricting the Russian presence in the country ...

Syria’s new government has canceled a 49-year lease signed with Russia to operate the port of Tartus, home to Moscow’s sole naval base on the Mediterranean Sea. The lease, signed in 2017 ...

and at the same time it is not a vehicle through which Iran can spread its terrorism to Hezbollah and destabilize Lebanon." The new authorities in Syria are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...

Power transitions in Iran, Afghanistan and other Muslim-majority nations have often endangered women’s hard-won freedoms. That’s why it’s crucial to prioritize women’s rights in Syria to ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria since 2012, said Monday during a visit to the Syrian capital that the incoming Trump administration ...

Syria’s new defense minister, Murhaf Abu Qasra, stated on Sunday that the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) cannot retain their own military bloc within the Syrian armed forces.

Syria’s de facto leader said Israel no longer had any “excuse” to remain in the two countries’ buffer zone after Damascus rid itself of Iran’s presence, and stated that he would welcome ...