P LUMES OF SMOKE rose over Damascus on July 16th as Israeli warplanes struck Syria’s capital. Targeting the presidential ...

From the Middle East, we verified footage of the deadly fire in Kut, Iraq, which is now known to have killed at least 61 ...

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Clashes between Druze militias and Sunni Bedouin clans in Syria's Sweida province have killed more than 30 people and injured ...

Spain and Türkiye, positioned at opposite ends of Europe, have the potential to build a dynamic Mediterranean alliance ...

The directly visible indicator of the devastation was the collapse of the local currency (from 47 Syrian pounds per US dollar in 2010 to 14,800 by the end of 2024), as growing budget deficits were ...

After government loyalists and Druze militia clashed in the southern city of Suweida, Syrian government forces intervened.

To appreciate the dramatic shift in President Donald Trump’s policy towards Ukraine, consider two scenes in the Oval Office, ...

This interview with Hüseyin Ovayolu accompanies our online release of his photographic collection Uprooted, a black and white ...

Furor over the Jeffrey Epstein memo is picking up steam in Washington, raising pressure on President Trump ‘s administration to shift tacks even as the president ramps up efforts to castigate allies ...

What do borders teach us about ourselves?

An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.