Russia is supplying Syria with oil and gas to maintain its military bases, despite not extraditing the former dictator Bashar ...

The icy winds of Moscow offer little warmth for exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose sudden downfall on December 8 ...

Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government's ability to deter threats from enemies, including Islamic ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

The Kremlin is attempting to preserve its influence in Syria by leveraging the ongoing energy crisis, which worsened after ...

In 2005, Pakistan was shaken by one of the most devastating earthquakes in the country’s history, a 7.8-magnitude tremor that ...

A stable environment would also allow Lebanon to regain control over its borders and territory by fully implementing ...

The last weeks of 2024 have brought monumental changes to the Syrian situation, triggered by events in Gaza and Lebanon. On December 8, 2024, Syrian President ...

Turkish plans to establish a presence and air defenses on Syrian soil would hinder Israel’s operational freedom, a situation ...

Russia's former commander-in-chief in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin, was seriously considering using nuclear weapons to prevent Ukraine from advancing on Crimea in the fall of 2022, according to a ...

The Black Sea is another area of competition where Turkey has emerged with the upper hand during the war in Ukraine. Russia ...

Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow aims to revitalize and modernize the Navy with new shipbuilding programs, which will ...