On January 14, 2025 the Biden administration removed Cuba from the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.

On Friday, Iran and Russia signed a 20-year strategic partnership treaty. It is not a formal alliance such as Russia and ...

Iran’s Axis of Resistance crumbles as the Assad regime falls, Hezbollah weakens, Iraqi militias remain silent and Israeli ...

No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to ...

While the wages of success in the region will be enormous, the consequences of failure will be utterly hellish.

Syria has issued public tenders for oil and its products, Ghiath Diab, the oil minister in the caretaker government appointed ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

As he begins his second four-year term as president of the United States, Donald Trump faces a myriad of challenges in the ...

As President Trump is sworn in, Dr Burcu Ozcelik, our Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Security, reflects on what this ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan underscored the need to grant Syria's new administration the opportunity to confront the issue of Kurdish militants operating within its borders. He emphasised ...

One of the Israeli hostages freed on the first day of the Gaza ceasefire said Monday in her first comments since being ...

Washington’s standing in the Middle East has never been so low as its complicity in Israel’s belligerence escaped neither its ...