To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

World heritage is rarely exempt from war, as 2024 proved in the cases of Israel and its enemies in the Middle East, and ...

For the world, 2024 was riven by — and in some ways defined by — conflict on two fronts. The ripples after the previous ...

Still, it is in everyone’s interest that Syria succeed. Syrians do not want to endure further strife and devastation, and the ...

According to Oleg Ozerov, "imperialist powers have historically divided Syria and Lebanon along sectarian lines, planting slow-burning bombs and landmines that eventually exploded" ...

(RNS) — At a time when most of the international news is full of gloom and doom, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria is a ...

For the first time since he fled the country he ruled with an iron fist and a willingness to kill his own people to hold power, Bashar al-Assad was heard from. In a statement from exile in Moscow, ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad said he did not consider stepping down or fleeing the country, but remained until Russia ...

Palestinian health officials say the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war, now in its 14th month, topped 45,000 people. This comes as an Israeli strike killed at least 10 people, ...

He also called for peace in the Holy Land, namely in Palestine, Israel, as well as in Lebanon, Syria, and the entire Middle East ...

A week after a lightning rebel offensive toppled longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, the United Nations special envoy for Syria ...