Jordan has said its relations with the Syrian regime are heading in the "right direction" and looked forward to a reopening of the border crossings with its war-torn neighbor. "Our relations with the Syrian state and regime are going in the right direction," government spokesman Mohamed...

We need to first look at why and how Ankara decided to carry out Operation Euphrates Shield through its own military capabilities. In order to answer this question, we must first refer to Turkey’s threat perception at that time. Prior to Operation Euphrates Shield, the National...

The White House on Friday unveiled tough financial sanctions against the Venezuelan regime, banning the trade in new bonds issued by the government and its cash-cow state-run oil company PDVSA. In a move that leverages Washington's vast financial power against Nicolas Maduro's regime,...

Daesh (ISIS) militants pushed back government forces advancing on one of the last towns still in Daesh hands in the province of Raqqa, killing over two dozen soldiers and seizing vehicles, a Syria monitoring group and the extremists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...