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's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Tehran, on Feb. 25, 2019. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) ...

The fall of President Bashar al-Assad is a serious blow to Iran’s regional ambitions, says Mostafa Pakzad, an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Iran. The Iranian regime’s “image as ...

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

Documents from its looted embassy in Damascus reviewed by Reuters show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to ...

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

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

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 ...

At previous moments of tension over decades of rivalry with Western foes, Iran was able to project power across the Middle East using a network of close allies that meant any strikes against it ...

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

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 ...