The fall of that regime dealt a devastating blow to Iran and the so-called axis of resistance against Israel. Iran's strategy of encircling Israel with fire rings using proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria ...

Sunni Arabs abhorred the “Shia Crescent" from Iran to Lebanon that Mr. Obama ... Turkey, which saw the American president ...

With the fall of the Assad regime in Syria and an uncertain future, U.S. troops in the region must navigate a geopolitical ...

The war in Syria has left a trail of destruction. The country is devastated, fragmented, and economically ruined. Millions of ...

When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

For a fairly long time, the world appeared to be fixated on the understanding that Iran and Syria acted as almost one nation ...

With the multiple conflicts in the region remaining unresolved, the Middle East is heading towards another year of immense ...

Cut to twenty years after Jordanian King Abdullah’s sectarian fear-mongering of the “Shia Crescent ... in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen, and now with the Sunni-militia takeover in Syria ...

The fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria marks a pivotal moment in Middle Eastern history, given Syria's strategic role in the ...

But the Shia crescent has now collapsed ... it might resort to destabilising Syria, as it did in Lebanon in the 1980s and Iraq following Saddam's fall. Another possibility is that Iran, believing ...

But the Shia crescent has now collapsed ... Should Tehran perceive this as unlikely, it might resort to destabilising Syria, as it did in Lebanon in the 1980s and Iraq following Saddam’s fall. Another ...