Iran had a grand plan for Syria – taken right from the playbook of a country it considers its arch-enemy. Just as the United States solidified its global dominance by investing billions in rebuilding Europe after the Second World War, Iran would do the same in the Middle East by...

In December 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the long-awaited Caesar Act to tighten the noose on the regime of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The sanctions were set to expire in December 2024, but Congress renewed them in a text agreed upon just hours before the fall of the Assad...

The Ashrafieh Sahnaya area, south of the capital Damascus, witnessed a dangerous security escalation, with the death toll of General Security personnel rising to 16 as a result of attacks carried out by "outlaw" armed groups. Security sources told Zaman al-Wasl that these groups thwarted...

Israel’s foreign minister said Monday that the top UN court’s hearing on humanitarian aid to Gaza was part of a “systematic persecution and delegitimization” of his country. In a live briefing, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the court was “becoming completely politicized.” He...