The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

Daniel Neep’s excellent account corrects the traditional narrative to show a nation surviving and resisting the powers that ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) — Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and a central figure in one of the most violent episodes of modern Syrian history, has died at the age of ...

The group's rapid downfall was driven by overconfidence in foreign support and an underestimation of the Syrian state's ...

"It is easily the deadliest deed of the Islamic Republic in its history—and that is quite something given how brutal the regime has been," says Iran analyst Arash Azizi.

The American people deserve to know exactly why the person charged with overseeing 18 intelligence agencies was not included ...

Already, Iran has vastly limited its subsidized currency rates to cut down on corruption. It also has offered the equivalent ...

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Mideast are signaling their willingness to launch new attacks, likely trying to back Iran, ...

Beijing is quietly reassessing its Syria strategy as a new leadership tests its appetite for risk and engagement ...