The Trump administration is torn over how to respond to Russia’s military presence in Syria and whether to ask the new ...

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa will make his first visit to the United Arab Emirates and is also scheduled to visit Turkey ...

Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on US imports from most countries is destructive on the global level and can be expected ...

The new leadership in Damascus is exerting efforts to mend fences with Syria’s Druze community, weeks after the latter’s spiritual leaders accused the new Syrian government of being “extremist in ...

Israel is setting up military outposts and restricting villagers’ movements in a former demilitarized zone.

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years, this strategy proved successful. Slowly but surely, Tehran’s “axis of ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Turkish plans to establish a presence and air defenses on Syrian soil would hinder Israel’s operational freedom, a situation ...

Here are some of the trends shaping the future of the MENA economies. Last year was a sadly eventful one for the Arab world.

All told, despite sectarian divisions, Syrians are surprisingly upbeat. Except for Alawites, three-quarters of whom want ...

President Donald Trump is focused on realizing two transformative breakthroughs that his predecessors failed to accomplish: ...

The transformations that the international system underwent after the Cold War, with the collapse of the socialist system and the disintegration of the Soviet ...