Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid ...

Iran took some politically catchy moves. On 2 July, President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a law suspending cooperation with the ...

News about Bashar al-Assad, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The region is relieved about de-escalation. But it is also alarmed about an unrestrained Israel, writes H.A. Hellyer.

Iran relies on a network of paramilitary groups across the Middle East, but that network’s influence has greatly diminished ...

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has re-emerged after the war with Israel but faces a struggle to maintain the authority he has wielded over the Islamic republic in over three-and-a-half ...

The pro-Palestine messaging ignores the fact that a nuclear-armed Iran would be far more belligerent and dangerous than the ...

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

This change of tone, however fleeting, came after the intense U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites this week, Iran's retaliatory yet restrained attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar and ...

Promoting revolution never goes out of business, and lately, business is booming. Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem ...

Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu talked of regime change in Iran. Instead they may have left the Islamic Republic ...

In what would be the second such operation in less than a week, the Israeli military claimed it arrested members of Iran’s ...