Despite the rhetoric about a global war against Islamist terrorism, the US has long utilised reactionary Islamist groups in ...

The sudden collapse of the long-established Assad family dictatorship in Syria changes the balance and constellation of ...

The country may have exited the Axis of Resistance, but this does not mean that it has automatically crossed to the opposing ...

How the collapse of the Syrian government shifts power dynamics in the Middle East, including Russian influence ...

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fell amid complex geopolitical shifts, not because America and her allies are imperialists ...

Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.

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 on Thursday echoed India's stance on BRICS. Putin called External Affairs Minister S ...

President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of ...

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three forces: first, Israel’s military utterly eviscerated Assad’s ...

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between ...

The Russia-Iran-Assad axis is broken,’ Stroul, now the director of research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ...