The Trump Administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn much criticism.

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

The economic and geopolitical pressure on Iran is set to increase in 2025, with renewed U.S. sanctions, nuclear tensions, and ...

France, like other EU countries, has expressed a desire to engage with Syria’s new administration and lift sanctions on the ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) has finally found a war he doesn't like. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

A prominent media professor has been arrested and suspended for her alleged role in helping the Assad regime persecute ...

In-depth: After Assad's fall, Syrian civil society is reorganising for an inclusive political transition and to claim a role ...

While Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks has strengthened its security and military dominance, the long-term ...

Of the billions of tax dollars spent by the U.S. Agency for International Development Office (USAID) that are being ...

When Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist rebels in Syria in December after 14 years of civil war, there were concerns ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...