Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

Since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, industrial-scale manufacturing facilities of the amphetamine-like ...

The downfall of the Assad regime has profound implications for the Middle East, particularly for Russia and Iran, whose regional influence has taken a severe blow. Israel, however, views this as a ...

In interview with WSJ, Netanyahu lauds Lebanon op, says he dismissed Gallant's call to strike Hezbollah immediately after ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

Follow the latest on Syria In an abandoned school building, a small laminated card lies on a table, bearing the words “The ...

Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a ...

Syria is in chaos. The danger to Israel and the West is that the next Syrian regime will be no friendlier than Assad was.

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

The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, ...

Assad's regime is the latest casualty of Iran's war on Israel. After keeping his hold on Syria through 13 years of civil war, ...

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