Syria’s future depends on a historic undertaking: facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes in a country ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Top diplomats as well as Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi defense and intelligence chiefs aim to hold a first security ...

The recent seismic disturbances in the Aegean have sparked significant concern in Turkey, as new research suggests an ...

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid has taken legal action against Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani and Finance Minister Taif Sami Mohammed, holding them accountable for prolonged delays in ...

Al-sharaa's visit to Turkey marks the highest-level meeting since 2009, signaling a potential shift in Syrian-Turkish ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...

In fact, his aides and allies took pains to describe his initial flurry of executive activity as “shock and awe,” reviving an ...

On the evening of Thursday 30 January 2025, the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...