Turkey's military incursion into Syria is not merely another chapter of cyclical violence, but rather a calculated move based ...

Despite Russia's previous support for Assad, Russian influence in Syria not only endures thanks to energy ties but has ...

Ironically, however, the U.S., Israel, Europeans, the UAE and some other Arab states also want to save Assad, and so the only ...

A widespread, but misleading, assumption holds that Moscow’s current weakness signals its inevitable retreat from the region.

One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses.

Following October 7, the entire strategic context in the Middle East shifted as well. Israel no longer tolerates delegating regional power brokers to manage its cold war with Iran; it now handles ...

Turkey backed Syria's opposition forces from the start of the country's civil war in 2011. With Syrian dictator Bashar Assad ...

Turkey's indigenous Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), the Bayraktar Akinci, demonstrated new precision-strike ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane it said had crossed into its territory from Syria on Tuesday, killing at least one of the two pilots and marking the first time in half a ...

A lone gunman shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday. — -- A gunman who shot and killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday shouted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting for ...

The umbrella group representing Syria’s rebellion on the world stage announced on Thursday that they would not attend peace talks proposed to take place in Geneva during June, a flat rejection that ...