Iran is weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades, likely since its decadelong war with Iraq or even since the ...

Turkey under the Islamist rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is back as a world power. What’s more, if the decades of rhetoric from ...

A very different Middle East will greet President-elect Trump this month compared to the region he experienced during his first term. However, there are opportunities to advance American interests for ...

With its ambitions abroad temporarily limited by Israel's strikes on Hamas and Hezbollah, and the loss of supply lines ...

Sham took power from Assad on Dec. 8 in a lightning offensive and have since installed an interim government that has ...

Qatar is planning to help finance a massive boost in public sector wages promised by Syria's new government, a U.S. official ...

Syria's new government has met with their Gulf neighbours UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in a bid to strengthen relations. Meanwhile, they are requesting the lifting of Western sanctions to rebuild the ...

The media’s systematic non-reporting is not just academic. It has very real consequences. The lack of scrutiny and public debate about Britain’s clandestine intervention allowed Britain a relatively ...

The foreign minister of Syria's interim government has visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar in a bid to establish new diplomatic relations.

Most of the conflicts in the Middle East take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, but the strings are mostly pulled by ...

People visit the 'Ice and Snow World' at the annual Harbin Ice Festival in Heilongjiang province, China. AFP ...

"These sanctions constitute a barrier and an obstacle to the rapid recovery and development of the Syrian people who await ...