Ibrahim Hamidi

The latest Israeli strikes on Abu al-Duhur airbase in northern Syria destroyed its runways, yet they came dangerously close to igniting something far…

Several phone calls, not just one, took place last week between Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and Roman Gofman, the new head of Mossad,…

The Assad family’s rule over Syria for more than half a century ended in December 2024, when President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on a one-way…

What connects Damascus’s announcement of an agreement with Moscow to regulate Russia’s military presence in Syria with Kabul’s commemoration of the…

The Mecca Mutual Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan is more than a new military accord among three major states. It points…

If the Syrian army enters Lebanon, factions of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces will cross the border into Syria. If the US launches a ground…

Israel’s election on 27 October promises to be different to other recent votes in that it could bring to an end the longest political era in the…

During the two weeks I spent in Damascus, I found myself following four stories at once. The ‘new Syria’ was making diplomatic and economic advances…

The Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline has always represented more than an oil arrangement between Iraq and Syria, or a simple scheme for exporting crude. Its…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s objection to Washington supplying Türkiye with F-35 fighter jets went far beyond a dispute over an arms…