I had previously questioned the depth of Tehran’s relationship with Bashar al-Assad, as he considered it his pillar of support. It saved him in 2014 but failed after ten years. In the final weeks of ...

Holding the landmark national dialogue conference has been a key pledge of the rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

DESPITE his tyrannical rule, Putin’s fragile regime always sits just one step from collapse. The bloodthirsty tyrant seized ...

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring ...

Carter had a chance to speak truth to power to these regimes. He was a much more harsh critic of Israel and the Palestinian ...

In response, Houthi forces targeted Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic missile early Friday morning, the Houthis said in a statement. The missile was intercepted before crossing ...

US-allied Kurdish forces in north-east Syria have tightened security at prisons holding thousands of ISIS militants, as fears grow that remnants of the extremist group could take advantage of a ...

Israeli shelling has continued unabated even as ceasefire talks restart, through the mediation of Qatari and Egyptian ...

Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once-forbidden mountaintop and trading openly in dollars and imported ...

The party that for decades ruled as part of the Assad dynasty is now being blamed for damaging relations with other Arab ...