Assad's 24-year rule ended abruptly as a coalition of rebel forces, led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched a rapid offensive that overwhelmed government defenses and captured Damascus within 12 ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defined his rule and Iran’s place in the world through his hostility to Israel and the US. Last ...

Documents from its looted embassy in Damascus reviewed by Reuters show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to ...

The fall of President Bashar al-Assad is a serious blow to Iran’s regional ambitions, says Mostafa Pakzad, an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Iran. The Iranian regime’s “image as ...

The region is relieved about de-escalation. But it is also alarmed about an unrestrained Israel, writes H.A. Hellyer.

In what would be the second such operation in less than a week, the Israeli military claimed it arrested members of Iran’s ...

At previous moments of tension over decades of rivalry with Western foes, Iran was able to project power across the Middle East using a network of close allies that meant any strikes against it ...

Iran relies on a network of paramilitary groups across the Middle East, but that network’s influence has greatly diminished ...

Promoting revolution never goes out of business, and lately, business is booming. Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem ...

JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...