Poor Syria! That's an inauspicious but honest start, as Syria faces myriad problems, internal and external, without easy resolutions.Syria has long been a victim of others' machinations - from Ottoman ...

A ceasefire in Gaza has created a hopefully enduring–albeit uneasy–pause in the two-year Israel-Hamas war, with the recent ...

The Middle East stands on the threshold of a crucial week, intersecting critical files like the region hasn't seen in decades, including President Trump's Palestinian peace plan, and US-Israeli and ...

On the global stage, both Democratic administrations radiate a general sense of appeasement and indecision, empowering ...

Gaza’s future hangs in the balance. But while a fragile ceasefire holds, it looks like Israel has lost influence over the ...

Donald Trump doesn't start wars, but in ending Hamas's reign of terror in Gaza, he's showing how to prevent them from ever beginning at all.

In December 2004, Jordan’s King Abdullah first warned the world of the emergence of a Sh’ia crescent that could destabilize ...

Trump’s “Sharm offensive” redefines America’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how it fits into America’s ...

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...

The short answer to why both the Biden and Obama administrations failed to achieve peace in the Middle East is that they took ...

Russia clearly wanted to pivot to work with Sharaa. It likely extended feelers long ago, recognizing HTS as a potential ...

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his ...