Domino theory. Some fighters from a Uyghur militant group who helped overthrow the Syrian regime reportedly relocated to Afghanistan and have settled in ...

Blame game. Russia’s Gazprom ceased deliveries of natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Jan. 1, citing Kyiv’s refusal to ...

The Russian economy will be bad in 2025, at least according to Russian citizens. A newly published poll conducted by Levada suggests that nearly ...

Syria was for centuries a meeting place for disparate civilizations and cultures, turning it into one of the most ethnically ...

A few developments over the past week bode ill for the Middle East’s sectarian rivalries, with implications for U.S. strategy in the region. On Dec. 27, Hamid al-Shatri, the intelligence chief of Iraq ...

Breakthrough. A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party was permitted to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party ...

Breakthrough. A delegation from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party was permitted to meet with Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned ...

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The new Syria. Syria’s new leaders will not allow their territory to be used for attacks against Israel, and so Israeli ...

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Bashar Assad’s ouster in Syria will likely have far-reaching consequences for close ally Russia, extending even into its ...