It seems that the Syrian and Lebanese people’s way out of their ordeal is of two phases. The first, which is now nearing its end, is the phase of foreign (Iranian and, in Syria’s case, Russia as well) ...

as well as other land in the region (see map 5). The Assads increasingly sought to challenge Israel’s growing power in the region. Syria took advantage of Lebanon’s civil war to occupy the ...

Lebanon has been shaped by other and often competing world powers for millennia, and several continue to have influential roles today, most notably Iran, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, France ...

The meeting between the Syrian chief of staff and the Lebanese military official was the first since the Assad regime was ...