In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

But since he and his fellow jihadists advanced from Idlib, their northern enclave, and toppled the Assads on December 8th, ...

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...

Assad's collapse represents a significant blow to Iran's "Shia Crescent", a geopolitical alliance ... Teheran's ability to arm Hezbollah and project influence in Lebanon and across the Levant. With ...

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue unabated after a violent overnight raid on Khan Younis claimed the lives of at least 20 ...

Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear. The ...

The removal of Bashar al-Assad has reignited Western and Eastern plans to control Syria’s oil and gas resources.

Iran and Turkey are vying for dominance, impacting regional stability, alliances, and Israel’s strategic challenges in an ...

Gaza to Damascus, Tehran to Beirut, in Jerusalem, Kyiv, Moscow, Dhaka and Washington… it was a year of chaos all around. What then were the major events that se ...

Iraq and Syria acted as a conduit for Iranian weapons and other war-waging efforts for supplying Hezbollah in Lebanon. The fall of the Shia Crescent and the axis of resistance has shrunk the strategic ...

For a long, Jordanian King Abdullah had warned against the spectre of a rising “Shia Crescent” (assertion of Shiite rule in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon). He therefore would be presumably ...