Syria is in chaos. The danger to Israel and the West is that the next Syrian regime will be no friendlier than Assad was.

For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad ...

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fell amid complex geopolitical shifts, not because America and her allies are imperialists ...

The Syrian conflict has reached a critical juncture with the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, which has been a major shift ...

Assad's regime is the latest casualty of Iran's war on Israel. After keeping his hold on Syria through 13 years of civil war, ...

In a year where many of the most oppressive regimes committed human rights atrocities, the world body stayed fixated on ...

Associated Press journalists have been covering these conflicts since they began. Now, as 2024 ends and a new year begins, we asked two veteran AP reporters — Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Samya ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Putin, who said he hasn't spoken to Trump in four years, said he is open to meeting with the incoming U.S. president, who has repeatedly vowed to end the war in Ukraine soon after taking office on Jan ...

Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...

Russia carried out another deadly wave of missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities which it claims was in retaliation ...

Volunteers struggled on Friday to shovel up tons of sticky oil from Russia's Black Sea coastline following what President ...