A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders

Iranian diplomats bringing suitcases of cash, and winning bids for Lebanese government construction tenders are allowing Hezbollah to rebuild its financial infrastructure. One of the biggest tasks for new Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will be to cut off the flow of cash from Iran to Hezbollah,

Turkey's intelligence chief discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza in a phone call on Monday with officials from the political wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, a Turkish security source said.

Israeli intelligence secretly engaged with Syria to weaken Hezbollah and propose a deal with Assad. After Assad's collapse, Israel launched military actions and deployed forces to a demilitarized zone,

Just days into 2025, Israel is still fighting a war on seven fronts, including Iran, the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, various Iranian proxies in Iraq, volatility in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank),

For Hamas, armed struggle is looking like a dead end. Its future in Gaza now depends on the diplomacy of its civilian politburo.

Shaybani, the Israeli side explained its military activity by the fact that "Hezbollah and Iranian militia fighters were in these areas who were attacking" Israel

Israel and Hamas have agreed a historic ceasefire to end 15 months of war in Gaza, a conflict in which almost 50,000 people have been killed and which has threatened to draw in the whole of the Middle East.

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for now, by Turkey. This should come as no surprise: the history of the Middle East between the 16th and 18th centuries was that of struggle between the Ottoman and Persian empires, and it seems to be reviving in the 21st century.

Israel's actions in the wake of Syria's collapse give it unprecedented power in the air — right up to Iran's border.

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, representative, and Islamist it may be. The country’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Shara, is a former al Qaeda militant,

Syria is at the centre of geopolitical turmoil as, after a decade of conflict and instability, the conditions for a new leadership are being formed. Although