Seven years ago, I wrote about the “regional rise of Israel.” Today, its presence is greater than ever – it’s behind massive geopolitical changes in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. After all this, how does Israel now view itself? It’s unlikely that it will settle for...

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called Wednesday for the creation of a humanitarian corridor to deliver food and medicine to the Druze population in the southern Syrian city of Suwayda. In a post on X, Smotrich said he visited an operations center set up in the Druze village...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al Shaibani said his country wants Russia on their side and called for "mutual respect" between the two nations following the overthrow of Syria's Moscow-backed regime last year. "The current period is full of various challenges and threats, but it is...

The UN said Wednesday that Israel's unilateral "tactical pauses" in the Gaza Strip are not sufficient to address the scale of humanitarian needs. Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Farhan Haq stressed during a news conference that "a...