After toppling Bashar al Assad in December, Syria’s new leaders pledged to crack down on the captagon trade, which had ...

Natalie Ecanow is a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies focused on the Middle East and the ...

The US-backed Syrian Free Army (SFA), which operates from the Tanf Garrison in southern Syria, has been working to secure and ...

Two Israeli Embassy staffers were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, by Elias Rodriguez on May ...

Bradley Bowman and David Adesnik join Bill to unpack the U.S. decision to legitimize Ahmed al-Shara (AKA Jolani), the ...

The Turkistan Islamic Party’s branch in Syria, an Al Qaeda ally, is being integrated into the new Syrian military as the 84th ...

FDD’s Brad Bowman and Bridget Toomey catch Bill up on the latest cluster of developments related to the Houthis — from the ...

Russia has replaced its aging Ground Forces commander with a younger officer who has extensive combat experience in Ukraine.

On May 18, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a ground offensive in Gaza that’s part of Operation Gideon’s Chariots. The ...

President Donald Trump met with Syrian interim President Ahmad al Sharaa, a former Al Qaeda leader, and urged him to expel ...

Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, a former Michigan Army National Guardsman, is charged with providing material support to the ...

The PKK, the Kurdish separatist group that has waged a decades-long secessionist movement inside Turkey, recently announced ...