Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...

A gigantic shadow rises, silent and flat, across the alluvial plain of southern present-day Iraq, barely fifteen kilometers from the Iranian border. For centuries, the outlines of a cyclopean wall, ...

At a time when the United States is cornering Iran and the world is discussing whether Iran will be struck any day now, the European Union’s designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization was ...

Recent weeks have seen a political and military earthquake in Syria. Nearly 14 months after driving Bashar al Assad ...

Jerusalem should be “pragmatic and not give more on normalization than what it’s worth,” says Mideast expert Efraim Inbar.

Washington cannot impose democracy in Syria, nor should it try to. But it can endorse Syria’s territorial unity while insisting that unity without minority rights is a recipe for more instability.

In a dramatic week for Syria, AP journalists across the region delivered comprehensive, on-the-ground coverage of a rapidly shifting conflict, led by ...

President Trump has not authorized military action in Iran, but the U.S. has built up its presence in the region in recent days.

Investigative reporting suggests that Iran may have used at least one warhead in the attacks that incorporated radiological ...

Iran has often stood at the crossroads of social and political metamorphosis and regional geopolitical recalibration, from the Islamic Revolution of 1979 to the attrition of the Iran-Iraq War. The ...

Days before the June 2025 attacks on Iran, media reported that US military assets were moving unusually. On June 21, for ...

What do these developments mean for the country’s political transition? This briefing featured Charles Lister, Senior Fellow ...