The fall of the Syrian regime degraded Iran’s position in the country and, in doing so, has made Syria a battleground for the ...

Staying put. Israeli forces will remain in the formerly demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, including Mount ...

Bashar Assad’s ouster in Syria will likely have far-reaching consequences for close ally Russia, extending even into its ...

The new Syria. Syria’s new leaders will not allow their territory to be used for attacks against Israel, and so Israeli ...

After months of fighting the junta in Myanmar, one of the country’s most powerful ethnic rebel groups has captured the military’s last western outpost. In doing so, the insurgency now has total ...

By Andrew Davidson Bashar Assad’s abrupt flight from Syria left behind a power vacuum. The rebels who overthrew him are hard ...

Regional reaction. Turkey condemned Israel’s plan, approved over the weekend, to expand settlements in the occupied Golan ...

The re-election of Donald Trump has brought Mexico’s relationship with the United States back to the fore. The president-elect has made clear on several occasions his intent to crack down on ...

Syria’s civil war, which began in 2011, displaced more than 13 million people, including nearly 5 million who fled abroad.

Reaching out. Moscow is in direct contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that led the rebellion that overthrew the Assad regime in Syria, Russian ...

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