As Syria enters 2026, the Islamic State has found an ideal environment to restructure its presence, shifting from covert operations in the desert to infiltrating official institutions, taking ...

Protests over worsening economic conditions in Iran continue to spread and have started to claim casualties. Although the protests have taken a new trajectory, their fate remains ultimately and ...

As the curtain closed on 2025, the Israeli military published its annual operational summary, offering a portrait of a year described within the defense establishment as one of the most intense ...

On a stormy night, crossing from Syria into Lebanon was not a choice but a forced spiral into the unknown. The Great Southern River in the western countryside of Homs — the natural boundary ...

In recent years, the world’s attention has drifted away from Somalia as major global crises consumed the military capacities of many countries and dominated their diplomatic focus. That ...

As it has done at similar junctures, Omani diplomacy moved to extinguish the flames of disputes that have recently flared between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, following an airstrike ...

Uncertainty surrounds the issue of restricting weapons to the state in Iraq, as Iran-aligned militias announce a reversal of their long-standing opposition to surrendering their arms. The militias ...

The war in Sudan is no longer confined within its borders or limited to the edges of the Blue Nile region. Signs are emerging of a new and more dangerous phase, as Sudanese intelligence reports ...

Rapid developments in Yemen over the past several hours are shaping what appears to be a new phase in the country and could pave the way for a potential shift in the map of alliances among Yemeni ...

Alan Eyre, a diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Alhurra that Iran’s internal situation is deteriorating rapidly. “The past year has brought severe water stress to major urban centers ...

Between images of escalating security incidents on screens and social media platforms on one hand, and an unrelenting longing for her “first home” on the other, Rana faced a difficult decision: ...

Commercial shipping in the Red Sea no longer resembles what it was in past decades. The waterway has been militarized, with warships and naval fleets from distant powers flowing into it. As the ...