SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

Jordan, which faces new regional challenges in dealing with Syria’s transitional Islamist regime, is pursuing a strategy of ...

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” scenario and aid a resurgence of ISIS, the commander of a US-backed Syrian ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Paramilitary forces in the Middle East are some of the largest in the world. They work in a region where traditional military ...

In a region known for protracted conflicts having an army that can sustain prolonged conflict is crucial. The Middle East is ...

Prevent is about one thing – preventing terrorism.  But terrorism is narrowly defined. It is, according to the Crown ...

Former rebels now controlling Syria name an interim president and throw out the constitution adopted under Assad, saying a ...

Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people who have been held at al-Hol camp in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province since the defeat of the jihadists in 2019.

The United States has shared secret intelligence on threats from the Islamic State with the new government in Syria, which is itself ... including keeping ISIS down,” said Matthew Levitt ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President ...