As 2024 comes to an end, the year seems like a blur. In our roundup, we look back at the news and the newsmakers that shaped ...

For much of the past decade, Assad’s regime, bolstered by unwavering support from Iran and Russia, brutally suppressed ...

Associated Press journalists have been covering these conflicts since they began. Now, as 2024 ends and a new year begins, we ...

Assad's regime in Syria has exposed the fragility of other autocratic regimes, such as Nicolás Maduro's government in ...

Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain ...

President Biden pulled punches when enforcing oil sanctions against Iran. Forsaking the leverage inherited from President Trump’s “maximum pressure,” Biden opted for “maximum deference” from the ...

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...

Syria is in chaos. The danger to Israel and the West is that the next Syrian regime will be no friendlier than Assad was.

United States President-elect Donald Trump is staying true to his self-given moniker of “tariff man.” This time, he’s taking ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his country was not defeated in Syria following the fall of its client ...