Syria

War on Iran

How a regional defence pact could deal the final blow to Israel's violent expansionism

Resistance by Iran and its allies has been the only thing stopping Israel's endless quest to seize territory and expel native populations
Economy
Turkey advances historic Hejaz railway project with Saudi Arabia deal
Syria after Assad
How Syria’s captagon trade shifted to Sweida after Assad’s fall
War on Iran
How the Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping the old world order
Idriss Hadj Nacer
War on Iran
Is Iran the new regional superpower?
Kayhan Barzegar
Syria after Assad
Syria's government begins to return Alawi lands, while maintaining its hold over others
Syria after Assad
Syria says missing chess champion’s six children likely killed under Assad
Syria after Assad
Euphrates flooding displaces thousands in Syria's Deir Ezzor
Israel's war on Lebanon
Israel's colonisation of south Lebanon is already under way
Paul Khalifeh
Sahel
In Mali, every foreign intervention failed - and jihadists adapted
Omar Ashour
War on Iran
Iran has won the war. Trump and Netanyahu now face a reckoning
David Hearst
Syria War
VIDEO: US bombing campaign increases support for IS - Moazzam Begg
Syria War
Local Syria ceasefires: The way out of a US policy dead end?
Gareth Porter
Inside Lebanon
Lebanese security forces launch prison crackdown after deadly bombing
Syria War
Syria's Raqqa marks first anniversary of full IS takeover
Syria War
Syrian actor dares Assad to do 'snow bucket challenge'
Charlie Hebdo
Turkey says Boumeddiene crossed into Syria last week
Charlie Hebdo
Hypocrisies of states exposed in Paris march
Ibrahim Halawi
Syria War
Amidst heavy snow and fuel shortages, wood fires choke Dera'a
Diplomacy
Kerry's year of unfulfilled hopes for Middle East
Islamic State
US-led forces drop nearly 5,000 bombs on IS group
Diplomacy
Lebanon-Syria timeline: 1976-2014
Syria War
Syrian opposition rules out dialogue with Assad in Moscow