The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate ...

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She ...

Iran's loss of influence in Lebanon and Syria has helped to spark a shift in attitude among Arab leaders.

Iranian and Russian strategic interests converged in Syria as the war progressed ... In this context, Iran is likely to shore up its influence in Iraq, “the last pillars of Iran’s axis of resistance,” ...

Like Syria, Iraq was ruled by a Baathist regime that ... bordering Iran, Turkey, and Russia. Iran, Turkey, and the PMFs, as well as Iraqi Arabs, have their eyes on Kurdistan and its oil resources.

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

These included a Syrian opposition offensive that toppled President Bashar al-Assad, a key Russian and Iranian ... in a US drone strike in Iraq, sparking outrage in Iran. Last year, Trump warned ...

Competing claims emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...

Moscow has looked to the Islamic republic as a strategic ally since sending troops into Ukraine — Evgenia Novozhenina Russia and Iran signed ... in a US drone strike in Iraq on Trump's orders, ...

Russia and Iran signed a new treaty on Friday underpinning their economic and military cooperation, which both sides cast as a major milestone in their relations. Moscow has looked to the Islamic ...