President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

The U.S. has removed Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from its terror list, signaling a shift in policy amid evolving political dynamics in ...

The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...

There has been a significant change in the direction of U.S. policy in the Middle East since the year 2020. The United States ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. and Russia have exchanged new ideas for Ukraine peace talks after he met ...

JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

The shoe removal rule was first implemented in 2006, but its origin dates back to a 2001 “shoe bomber” plot aboard an American Airlines flight.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the U.S. and Russia have exchanged new ideas for Ukraine peace talks after he met with his Russian counterpart in Malaysia on Thursday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defined his rule and Iran’s place in the world through his hostility to Israel and the US. Last ...