Germany’s foreign minister has warned Syria’s new leaders that lifting sanctions imposed on the country will depend on them ...

In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...

Possible good news is that, as the year went on, the ground in the Middle East shifted. Israel pushed Iran onto its back foot. Iran’s president and foreign minister died in a mysterious helicopter ...

Russia ‘drafts 180,000 convicts’ as Zelensky says decisive Trump can stop Putin - Trump ‘capable of stopping Putin or, to put ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...

Recent media reports suggest that former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was the target of a suspected poisoning attempt on ...

People in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus always thought something strange was happening at the nearby state security facility. Walled off and heavily guarded, the government compound was off limits ...

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly survived a poisoning attempt in Moscow, where he has been under Vladimir ...

The European Union stepped up efforts to build ties with Syria’s new leaders and persuade them to reduce Russia’s influence ...

With a Russian apologist preparing to return to the White House, Keir Giles plots out how he believes Putin will use the new American president, Ukraine’s defenselessness, and the chill of life ...

More than 100,000 Dutch Jews are estimated to have been killed in the Holocaust. The fake cover was also supposedly posted on ...