The government of Bashar al-Assad has received aid from several nations both within and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran ... from the conflict. Israel, which has a northern ...

Russia’s UN envoy on Friday compared the day-after-day shelling of Hamas-controlled Gaza by Israel to the brutal siege of Leningrad during World War II. At the other end of the historical ...

While Israel should be wary of Turkey’s long-term ambitions across the region, the risk of leveraging Russia to thwart Turkey in the short term significantly outweighs the reward. Israel would ...

Russia in particular has been a strong military ... as one of the Middle Eastern countries furthest from the conflict. Israel, which has a northern border with Syria, also remains neutral.