How to read the ripple effects in the region and around the world as Trump pulls the transatlantic alliance apart

Ibrahim Hamidi

The aim is to direct future investment and business enterprise back to the US rather than outsourcing production to countries with cheaper production costs. But could it backfire?

Con Coughlin

Al-Sharaa has many concerns as transitional president, not least security and balancing the needs of his people with factional and regional politics. It will be a long journey, and it has just begun.

Alia Mansour

Hezbollah's entrenched networks, the economic drivers of illicit trade, Syria's limited security capacity, and the sheer scale of the porous border all make total elimination unlikely

Haid Haid

Have hegemons become so drunk on power that we are heading towards an authoritarian dystopia? It seems so.

Houssam Itani

For decades, Tehran bore its way deep into the Syrian state. Dismantling its influence is no easy feat, as Syria's new ministers are discovering, but it is important.

Ibrahim Hamidi

Disparaging remarks made by senior Trump administration officials about their European allies are not new, but they will further hurt already strained relations

Con Coughlin

Israel continues to bomb and seize Syrian territory, while Iran uses remnants of the Assad regime to foment instability. Both claim to protect minorities as a pretext to extend their influence.

Alia Mansour

The US-Israeli plan for a new Middle East requires a pliable Syria. To this end, a long list of tall demands has been handed to the new leadership in Damascus.

Ibrahim Hamidi

The region carries around 8% of the world's tuberculosis burden―a share that is growing due to conflict, undiagnosed cases, and drug-resistant strains

Hanan Balkhy

After decades of under-investment in defence, it remains to be seen whether Europeans have the ability and resources to create a force with the strength and resilience necessary to meet the challenge

Con Coughlin

Deals with Kurdish and Druze minorities are to be cheered. A blink-and-you-miss-it National Dialogue Conference, the killing of 1,000 people, and the president's ever-expanding powers are not.