The icy winds of Moscow offer little warmth for exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose sudden downfall on December 8 ...

Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government's ability to deter threats from enemies, including Islamic ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

A stable environment would also allow Lebanon to regain control over its borders and territory by fully implementing ...

The last weeks of 2024 have brought monumental changes to the Syrian situation, triggered by events in Gaza and Lebanon. On December 8, 2024, Syrian President ...

The Kremlin is capitalizing on Syria’s energy crisis in an effort to keep its military bases in the country, even as it ...

As domestic stability gets wobbly in Turkey the destabilizing effect can radiate out to the neighboring countries, to the ...

As Israel's ground offensive against Hezbollah ramped up, one disturbing pattern emerged: the presence of Russian-made ...

For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central ...

Half of the U.S. Senate - 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats - joined together on Tuesday to introduce sanctions that would be ...

By Neil Hauer for bnm IntelliNews in Damascus The end of the 54-year rule of Syria’s Assad regime came so quickly that many ...

The European Union has stepped up efforts to increase its influence in Central Asia, with one of the objectives being to drive Russia and China out of the region. However, the EU’s attempts to ...