Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the nation has become a battleground for competing hegemons. The United ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Egypt gave up its role as the leader of the Arab World after the signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1978, just ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. The San Remo Conference in 1920 codified colonial interests out of the remains of ...

Unconcerned with casualties, Netanyahu’s talk of “changing the face of the Middle East” has found ready echoes across much of the Israeli media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people across the Gaza Strip, including several ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

Erdogan foresees a post-Assad order that reinforces Turkey’s dominance and possibly redefines the political map of the Middle East. At the core of Erdogan’s leadership lies an ideological ...

Turkey and Israel are the main strategic beneficiaries of the collapse of the Syrian regime, but now they are on a collision course of their own.

Save Sign in and save to read later On October 3, 2023, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addressed a large crowd of government officials ... the odds that the two most powerful states in the Middle ...

Matthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO ... of the Assad regime in Syria opens the way to a new Middle East. This path will have to go through Saudi Arabia.