The U.S. thinks counterterrorism can hold Syria together, and is counting on a former Al Qaeda militant to help do the job

At the time of writing, Tehran’s reservoirs are estimated to hold just nine more days of drinking water. If it does not rain soon, president Masoud Pezeshkian has warned, the capital city – home to 10 million people – may have to be evacuated.

Mounting nuclear risks – from Ukraine’s war-torn power plants to Iran’s unresolved safeguards, and renewed inspection efforts in Syria – are testing the global non-proliferation regime like never before,

Iran's hopes to mimic the U.S. Marshall Plan by rebuilding Syria were dashed by the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Reuters found documents outlining Iranian investments and how they went wrong. Map of Syria.

Nearly a year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa discusses a fast-changing Middle East and what's being done to stabilize his fractured and traumatized country.

Mouldy half-finished food on bunk beds, discarded military uniforms and abandoned weapons - these are the remnants of an abrupt retreat from this base that once belonged to Iran and its affiliated groups in Syria. The scene tells a story of panic.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif talked by phone on Friday and expressed concern over the involvement of Syrian and Libyan fighters in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,

Iran‘s top general in Syria acknowledged they were “defeated very badly” with the collapse of the Assad regime, which represented a candid assessment divergent from other messages out of Tehran since the fall of the government. Brig. Gen. Behrouz ...

A Cold War adversary looks to enter the American orbit.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough took to the television airwaves, warning all five networks that Iran could get a nuclear bomb if the U.S. does nothing on Syria. “We have to make sure that [the Iranians] do not misinterpret how we react to ...