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

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

The risk is that the anti-Israel “axis of resistance” from Iran could be replaced by a new pro-Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood alliance led by Turkey’s president.

Ankara said to seek air bases in central Syrian desert as it seeks to replace Iran as the main power in the war-ravaged ...

Sharaa, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham, the rebel group ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said his government aims to restore ties with the United States in the coming days ...

After Donald Trump’s meeting this week with Benjamin Netanyahu, there are fears that the long-term human tragedy for ...

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and National Intelligence Agency (MİT) Chief İbrahim Kalın held key meetings in Damascus and Baghdad. Central to Ankara’s strategy is preventing the ...

A Gaza ceasefire is a start, but lasting peace depends on Saudi leverage to halt Israeli expansion, which could shift the ...

This is a rare moment in the Middle East. Opportunity outweighs risk, and shrewdly applied American power and influence could ...