WASHINGTON DC - It is early to evaluate the work of the new government in Damascus, led by the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

Some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria under the country's new interim rulers after the fall of former President Bashar Assad, the direct ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

The Kremlin and now-exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017 agreed Russia should have long-term access to Tartus naval ...

Russia's Mediterranean foothold faces uncertainty, with Tartus’s future hanging in the balance and alternative bases in Libya ...

Russia’s apparent fast-tracking of plans to establish a military hub in Libya could worsen that country’s protracted conflict. For Russia, as for Iran, last month’s fall of the 54-year-old Assad ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key all in the Middle East - but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

Following the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, there is uncertainty over the future of Russia's military bases in Syria. The ...

They say disparate violent incidents in the past two months—including alleged extrajudicial killings and the destruction of a ...

The rebel alliance that took power has vowed to prosecute senior figures from the ousted government, but accountability will ...