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The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as ...
U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...
How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...
Syrian activist Shadi Martini tells lobby new president called peace with Israel a 'unique opportunity'; Gulf journalist ...
The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...
The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...
During more than a decade of war in Syria, plenty of external powers got involved. The hope now for the country’s shattered ...
Former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, living in exile in Russia, will still be subject to sanctions along with his allies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is revoking the terrorism designation of a group led by Syria’s new president as ...
More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar al-Assad has made a remarkable return to regional diplomacy. Once ...
An Abraham Accords-centric approach tailors the Cold War-era “containment” strategy that George F. Kennan formulated to the Middle East, with Iran standing in for the Soviet Union.