JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

President Trump eases most sanctions against Syria in a move to reclaim regional leverage, counter Iranian influence, and ...

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is chipping away at Iran’s regional influence. He is urging Syria and Lebanon to join the ...

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing ...

The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are ...

Syria's civil war is over. Assad is gone. But a new chapter has begun, one that's raising eyebrows across the Middle East.

No, but the latest updates to the Syria sanction lists did remove a Russian oligarch and affiliated businesses for presumably ...

If you read the analyses that are being published by Washington-based think tanks themselves, the messaging is relatively ...

Israel's confrontation with Iran, along with the war that began on October 7, marks a tectonic shift in Middle Eastern ...

Courtesy of Mr Trump and his associates, Turkey’s relations with America, having plumbed new depths over much of the past ...

Iran's nuclear program was "degraded" by one to two years during recent US airstrikes, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Iran, Ukraine and other issues on Thursday in a ...