The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

President Trump is going to approve renewed hardline strategies against terror-state Iran, after President Joe Biden spent ...

Three concentric circles of domestic, regional, and global actors compete for power and influence in Syria because of the ...

The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, it has sought to expand its influence by creating a “Shia crescent” that includes Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. However, Iran’s ...

First, it is the biggest country on the western side of the Shia Crescent of Power ... weapons delivery into southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights area of Syria. This would have dramatically ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

Iran's loss of influence in Lebanon and Syria has helped to spark a shift in attitude among Arab leaders.

Donald Trump inherits a Middle East that looks dramatically different from the one his administration left in 2021.

The “Shia Crescent” refers to the territorial corridor connecting Iran, Iraq, Assad’s Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, all under Iran’s leadership. Iran has lost its land access to the ...