Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

Israel's military has carried out an airstrike on a residential building on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus that ...

Israeli warplanes have hit the 'terror HQ' in neighbouring Syria, warning the new regime there is no place to hide for ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed the Israeli Air Force conducted an air strike in Damascus on Thursday, with the military saying it had struck a "command centre" of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ...

This raised doubts that the new leadership’s intent was not only to suppress armed dissent but also to punish the civilian population. The tensions along Syria’s coastal region and in the Latakia ...

One might think that from Israel’s point of view, the collapse of the Assad regime would be seen as a positive development ...

Syria saw its worst violence since the end of the dictatorship — along with significant social media disinformation. AI fakes and manipulated historical images online inflamed the real-life fighting.

Lebanon offers reasons for optimism in the Middle East and so could Syria if it can achieve stability, a senior S&P executive ...