In a conversation with Jonathan Spyer, expert on Syria, we explore the latest flare-ups of violence, Israel's strategic role, and the challenges of reintegrating a fractured nation.

Control over Syria would be a key element in countering China’s growing economic influence in the Middle East and reasserting the US’s position as the dominant external economic and political power in ...

Appellate court judges are expressing skepticism over President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for his broadest batch of ...

Unifying Syria’s armed forces and deradicalizing its former terrorist elements will be the new regime’s most formidable challenge.

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President Donald Trump hasn’t found his recent phone calls with war-entangled leaders encouraging. “Very disappointed,” Trump said of his last conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose ...

The crisis has echoes of past humanitarian crises that left presidents wringing their hands over how to respond.

Israeli attacks and starvation in Gaza are continuing to claim dozen of lives, as global pressure mounts for a ceasefire and ...

Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure ...

A RUSI report examining growing military threats to nuclear facilities is urging for proactive risk mitigation, defence ...

SDF chief Mazloum Abdi reaffirms 10 March pact with Damascus after tensions over Suweida. Talks on military integration ...

In crisis after crisis, China has avoided taking concrete action, suggesting Beijing isn't interested in bearing the costs of ...