Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday criticized U.S. "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran during a speech marking the 46th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution's victory. During his ...

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

Intense clashes erupted between the Syrian Army and Hezbollah near the Lebanon border. Reports suggest Syrian forces, aligned ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Sharaa, said in remarks broadcast on Monday he believes U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza ...

The meeting gathered Brigadier-General Kioumars Pourhashemi, Iran’s top military adviser in Syria, two Lebanese Hezbollah commanders, and officers from various security branches, a commander ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Without meaningful steps from Tel Aviv, normalisation is a non-starter - but after years of war, Damascus cannot afford a ...

Middle East expert Eva J. Koulouriotis states that Ankara has found common ground with the jihadist group HTS, which has taken control in Syria, particularly regarding the eastern Euphrates. According ...

Start with a maximalist position, adapt to the response and keep both allies and rivals off balance all the time. It’s all ...