Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

Competitive colonialism, nationalist, revolutionary and ethnic aspirations, rogue rulers and industrial and criminal ...

Years of civil war and recent natural disasters have left Syrians greatly in need of humanitarian aid, and international ...

Ankara is emerging as a winner after Assad’s fall, deploying influence in Damascus. Erdogan is consolidating a position of ...

It’s many years since ISIS, also known as Islamic State, held sway over much of Syria and northern Iraq a time when it ...

Ukraine is pledging support for the new authorities in Syria, which was once a key Russian ally in the Mideast.

Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of 2024 and almost three years into Moscow’s all-out ...

Russian natural gas had kept flowing through the country’s pipeline network to Europe under a five-year agreement — even ...

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that ...

Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of last year.

On 8 October 2023, Hezbollah began raining rockets and drones down on northern Israel in solidarity, it said, with its ...

Syria's new government likely needs arms to solidify its hold on power. That's an opening for its Turkish backers.