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

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

The region is quite dynamic, with an intense flurry of diplomatic activity. The Middle East, and specifically Palestine, dominates the agenda. There are areas of convergence and divergence between ...

In the wake of that collapse, Israel seized the opportunity ... early-warning radars and sensors in both Syria and Iraq, which were part of a network Iran established in the region to detect ...

Regime Change in Syria ... linked to Iran had been among the loudest voices calling for a U.S. exit from Iraq — particularly after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack in southern Israel and Israel ...

Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought US forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel ... or Iran.” Armed revolution in neighboring Syria has ...

DUBAI — Israel ... Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. That’s raised fears of a preemptive Israeli strike targeting Iranian nuclear sites, something Israel has done in both Iraq and Syria.

Donald Trump’s breathtaking plan for the US to takeover Gaza stunned the world and ripped up the foreign policy status quo in ...