Damascus and Tehran wanted invading US troops to get stuck in a 'new Vietnam' and set up an operations room headed by their top lieutenants to cause havoc, never-before-published documents show.

Secretary of State Blinken will host Foreign Minister Fidan on 7 March in Washington with the Gaza war at the top of the agenda, but the talks will resonate in Damascus

A cash-strapped regime increasingly uses suicide drones as a cost-effective means to maintain pressure in the northwest

On this day, 66 years ago, Egypt and Syria united to form the UAR under Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership. Three years later, the union dissolved.

Personal papers of Syria's former vice-president detail Syria Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Zoubi's fall from grace and his subsequent 'suicide'

Millions in northeast Syria struggle to get the medical care that they need. A special Al Majalla investigation talks to medics, patients, and families to shed light on the growing problem.

Armed groups, both pro and non-regime, pose myriad threats to the fundamental functions of the state.

Jordan's swift and tough military action has forced Damascus to address a problem it has long sought to ignore. Meanwhile, sources claim Iranian involvement in weapons smuggling.

Without US military presence, the vice currently around the neck of IS in northeastern Syria would be loosened considerably, if not removed altogether.

Al Majalla provides exclusive insight into a fraternal rivalry between Hafez and Rifaat that ended up with Hafez remaining Syrian president.