Does Israel's seizure of Syrian territory serve temporary security goals? Or is it a permanent land grab that might thwart future friendly ties with Syria's new rulers and diplomatic relations with ...

The smuggling routes to the West Bank had two routes: the first passed through Syria to Jordan; the second route began in ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...

The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, ...

Assad's regime is the latest casualty of Iran's war on Israel. After keeping his hold on Syria through 13 years of civil war, ...

For the world, 2024 was riven by — and in some ways defined by — conflict on two fronts. The ripples after the previous ...

Republican lawmakers want a return to “maximum pressure” on Iran in the second Trump administration and are widely open to ...

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, entered Syrian territory Tuesday and said Israeli troops would remain in the ...

By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI (Reuters) - 2025 will be a year of reckoning for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ...

*While people bleat on about “genocide” with around 40,000 dead in Gaza, many of them being terrorists, the Syrian civil war ...

The Russia-Iran-Assad axis is broken,’ Stroul, now the director of research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ...