It was a decidedly down year for democracy across the globe. From the battlefields of eastern Ukraine to the smouldering ...

Democracy faces a decline as expansionist autocracies, populists, and degraded international norms rise. The future of ...

TEHRAN - A Princeton University researcher says 2026 may bring “deeper instability” at a great cost to the Middle East and ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the treatment of the Eastern Mediterranean, a region whose dynamics are increasingly misread when folded uncritically into the broader MENA frame. The distinction ...

Denmark just classified the US as a security threat. Thailand is bombing scam centers in Cambodia. North Korea is applying ...

Explore the escalating conflicts of 2025, highlighting the global struggle for peace amid increasing violence and civilian ...

The long-term shift to a more anarchic world order is accelerating. This transition has been driven by successive ...

The agreements are operational and Gulf-led, with Saudi and UAE energy firms moving quickly into oil and gas services, field ...

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast. Health officials said that the violence ...

Iran and Russia announced on Tuesday that they aim to expedite work on the International North-South Transport Corridor ...

Syrian security officers at their graduation ceremony in Damascus in February.Credit...David Guttenfelder/The New York Times Supported by By Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from Aleppo, Idlib and Damascus, ...

The killing of three Americans during what was said to be a counterterrorism operation in central Syria served as a reminder that U.S. troops are still operating in the country. By Jin Yu Young Three ...