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For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.

The ambient threat of torture is a form of social control, encouraging everyone else to comply with and bow down before the ...

President Ahmed al-Shara said the attack threatened to escalate sectarian violence in his sharpest criticism of Israel since ...

In place of a coherent strategy or vision, Trump’s approach to the Middle East is driven by dramatic gestures, symbolic ...

Legislation designating the Polisario Front as a foreign terrorist organization would send a strong signal as the regional ...

The mass firing of State Department employees could significantly impact the Trump administration’s ability to address the ...

This escalation threatens Washington’s nascent normalization track with Syria’s interim president, and former jihadist Ahmed al‑Sharaa. President Trump publicly courted Sharaa in Riyadh in May, ...

During a visit to Beirut last week in which he pressed for Hezbollah’s disarmament, Tom Barrack, a successful real estate ...

The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced an $11.8 million settlement with ...

The United States had imposed layers of sanctions on Syria since deeming it a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1979. The U.S.

Israeli warplanes pounded Syrian government buildings in Damascus, escalating its campaign against Syria’s new authorities ...