Sharaa, better known for his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, arrived at the Kremlin on Wednesday. This unprecedented visit, his first since rising to power in December last year, aims to lay a ...

Poor Syria! That's an inauspicious but honest start, as Syria faces myriad problems, internal and external, without easy resolutions.Syria has long been a victim of others' machinations - from Ottoman ...

When a red-decked cargo vessel was spotted earlier this year loading grain at a Russian-occupied port in Ukraine, few ...

In December 2004, Jordan’s King Abdullah first warned the world of the emergence of a Sh’ia crescent that could destabilize ...

Trump and the U.S. should keep pressuring Maduro of Venezuela, but not use blunderbuss tactics that will backfire ...

Assad-era conspiracy led to the creation of a desert mass grave * Operation Move Earth moved thousands of bodies to Syrian desert * Drivers and diggers were sworn to secrecy and feared death By Maggie ...

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...

As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his ...

Selma Mhaoud, and Shaya Laughlin, and published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The Kyiv ...

New York Times reporters compiled a wide array of clues to uncover what happened to Bashar al-Assad’s key enforcers after the ...

Ten years after its intervention in Syria, Russia’s influence in the Middle East has sharply declined as U.S.-led diplomacy ...

M any american presidents try to ignore the Middle East. Barack Obama wanted to pivot to Asia; Joe Biden told advisers to ...