Staying put. Israeli forces will remain in the formerly demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, including Mount ...

Bashar Assad’s ouster in Syria will likely have far-reaching consequences for close ally Russia, extending even into its ...

The fall of the Syrian regime degraded Iran’s position in the country and, in doing so, has made Syria a battleground for the ...

Nothing to see here. Russia’s economy is stable and will finish the year having grown by 3.9 or 4 percent, President Vladimir Putin said during a year-end press conference. However, he said the ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has already made clear that he plans a security crackdown on both the southern and northern borders. The main areas of concern are irregular migration and the ...

Over the past few decades, Poland has seen its economy grow and its military expand. With Donald Trump returning to the White House next month and the former president having made his feelings about ...

The new Syria. Syria’s new leaders will not allow their territory to be used for attacks against Israel, and so Israeli forces should withdraw from areas recently captured in the country’s southwest, ...

After months of fighting the junta in Myanmar, one of the country’s most powerful ethnic rebel groups has captured the military’s last western outpost. In doing so, the insurgency now has total ...

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