Ibrahim Hamidi

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…

Tuesday morning in Damascus was far from ordinary. The capital was preparing for the official ceremonies of the first visit by a French president in…

It is no longer a secret that US President Donald Trump proposed that Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa send his troops into Lebanon to disarm…

Libya and Sudan are not two separate crises. Recent weeks suggest that Washington, along with other capitals, has begun to treat them as a single,…

Attention is turning to the Strait of Hormuz. How soon can the strait reopen? How will the mines be cleared? When will oil tankers and supply lines…

For five decades, Syria lived beyond its borders more than it lived within them. It intervened in others' wars, conflicts, and alliances. At times,…

The growing prominence of figures from Idlib in positions of authority in the “new Syria” has stirred debate over the nature of the political order…