DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from February 2021 to February 2024.

Syria’s new president ... is now re-entering the global fray at a precarious moment in the Middle East, where power maps are being redrawn by Israel’s war in Gaza, its crippling of the ...

Under the Assad regime, Syria served as a base of operations for several Palestinian armed factions. By Euan Ward and Reham Mourshed Euan Ward reported from Beirut, Lebanon and Reham Mourshed ...

Senior Writer, Foreign Policy & Deputy Editor, National Security and Foreign Policy President Donald Trump's decision to reduce the presence of U.S. forces in Syria has drawn mixed reactions among ...

Assad’s regime collapsed, Israel’s military activity in Syria has grown increasingly aggressive. The Israel Defense Forces ...

Lebanon’s state news agency has reported that eight people were injured in a drone attack in a border village, as Syria said ...

Palestinian group Islamic Jihad's armed wing said Tuesday that Syria's new authorities had ... Assad's government was a close ally of Tehran and Lebanon's Hezbollah group, and was part of the ...

DUBAI, April 24 (Reuters) - The World Bank has granted Lebanon a $250 million loan aimed ... sources say 4:34 PM UTC Middle Eastcategory World Food Programme runs out of food stocks in Gaza ...

Damascus, in particular, is seen as a crucial milestone, offering not only symbolic capital but strategic access to Syria’s Mediterranean coast and a pathway to Lebanon. Syria’s interim ...

It is a recipient of Iranian funding and know-how, and has long had foreign headquarters in Syria and Lebanon. But its allies in both countries have recently suffered devastating blows ...

DELPHI, Greece – At the Delphi Economic Forum, the Middle East Forum (MEF) convened a panel to address ... while Spyer highlighted the need to monitor Turkey’s growing influence in Syria and Lebanon.