Israel’s June 2025 campaign wasn’t a repeat of 1967, but it carried the same spirit of preemption, speed, and strategic transformation.

It was predictable that Iran would retaliate against Trump’s bombing of its nuclear sites early on Sunday. The question was ...

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Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the ...

My first question in the aftermath of Sunday morning’s strike on Iran is: Does President Donald Trump understand whose side ...

US currently maintains 19 facilities across the region, with at least 8 reported to be permanent, across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

He left Syria to fight against the US Army in Iraq, became an Al Qaeda leader, was captured, and was imprisoned in the notorious American-run prison Abu Ghraib.

Let us look at an ethnic map of Syria.The Alawites, Sunni Muslims and Kurds were all forced into countries whose boundaries benefit none of them. In Iraq, it is no different with the Sunni, Shia ...

Ahead of the talks, the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq and Syria met in Baghdad, where Syria's Bassam al-Sabbagh accused the government's enemies of seeking to "redraw the political map". Iran's ...

Syria insurgents take control of key city of Hama in fresh blow to Assad. ... again to keep Iraq away from entering into the flames of a new war tied to what is happening in Syria," Golani said.

The map shows areas captured by HTS and its allies between November 27 and December 3, marked in dark green and turquoise. ... To the south, the U.S.-backed “Revolutionary Commando Army,” stationed at ...