NATO allies said on Monday they would not get involved in US President Donald Trump's plan to blockade Iranian ports, proposing to intervene only…
Eduardo Ramon
Iran looks to be putting up a determined fight after it was jointly attacked by the US and Israel on 28 February. The assassination of its Supreme…
At the recently concluded 2026 Munich Security Conference, the issue of Syria’s Kurds dominated discussions about the Middle East. The leader of the…
The Syrian army's operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), launched in Aleppo in the first week of January, upended Syria’s political…
On 8 January, during ongoing tensions in northern Syria, the Syrian army launched an operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)…
Almost no one would shed a tear if Iran’s theocratic, autocratic regime were to fall following the nationwide January 2026 protests, but most are…
Clashes in northern Syria between fighters of a Kurdish militia and those representing government forces in Damascus have shaken the ancient city of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in Jerusalem…
Pope Leo XIV, the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.5 billion Catholics and head of state of the Vatican, is on an official visit to Türkiye—the…
US President Donald Trump’s hosting of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on 10 November was a landmark moment for the country and…
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Assad to be tried in absentia
