President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...

The president’s new national security memo on Cuba reaffirms his old policy of punishment, which does nothing for US interests ...

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

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

As the president’s traditional support wanes, he is seeking a risky deal with the Kurds to buy a political lifeline. But is ...

A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday revoked the foreign terrorist organization designation for Hay'at Tahrir al ...

The State Department revoked the terrorist designation of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, a group headed by the country’s new ...