Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

Senators grill Trump nominee to lead intelligence community over support for Edward Snowden, meeting with al-Assad.

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Russia said on Wednesday it had held "frank" discussions with Syria's new de facto leader as it tries to retain its two military bases in the country, but it declined to comment on what he was ...

Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President ...

Russia has used the two bases to try to rebuild its Cold War-era influence in the Middle East. Their loss would be a ...

First is to stop acting like an absentee hegemon. When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, no one was particularly interested in how Russia, China or the European Union would respond. Like it or not ...

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year ...

Through its assertive Neo-Ottomanist policies Ankara aims to become the primary architect of Syria’s future while countering rival powers like Iran and Russia.

Both outgoing President Biden and the newly inaugurated President Trump have been consistent in their statements: the USA ...

President Trump's first national security priorities are to restore the Pentagon's warfighting readiness and reform the ...

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told ...