Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we’re still recovering from the lingering post-Thanksgiving food coma. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Some key questions for the U.S. ...
When Israel and Hezbollah signed a cease-fire agreement in late November, it represented a rare bit of hopeful news since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack enflamed the Middle East. But ...
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Syrian militia group led by Syrian Kurdish forces, said on Tuesday that its fighters clashed with Syrian government troops and took control of ...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Tuesday that they had successfully eliminated Hezbollah’s top envoy to the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, Salman Nemer Jamaa, in an airstrike on Damascus. The ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a reignited Syrian civil war, mass protests over Georgia’s suspended European Union accession bid, and U.S. export restrictions on China’s semiconductor ...
After nearly five years of being written off as a frozen conflict, a new and unprecedented chapter was written over the weekend in Syria’s 13-year civil war. On Wednesday, rebels ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces the most substantial threat to his regime in years, after rebels captured Aleppo—one of the country’s largest cities—last week, along with dozens of other towns ...
Last week, Syrian rebels led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a surprise offensive, capturing significant parts of Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities, and advancing ...
Perhaps the Syrian government’s worst-kept secret has been its exploitation of the Palestinian cause. At the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in October last year, while some suspected that Syria ...
Syria’s state-run news agency announced that airstrikes were happening around the country’s capital of Damascus, according to the Wall Street Journal. The announcement came after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ...