Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves round the world. As our look ahead to 2023 shows, several other crises loom as well. Will he or won’t he? This time last year, that was the question. Russian President Vladimir Putin had massed almost 200,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders. U.S. intelligence …

In the last few days, Damascus put forward conditions for continuing talks with Ankara, according to Asharq al-Awsat. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed developments in Syria in a phone call on Monday. Turkish and Iranian media reported that Iran’s top diplomat, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, might …

Syrians are move to camps described as “large prisons” in southern Turkey, where they are persuaded to return to Syria, according to Syria TV. The pace of deportation of Syrian refugees from Turkey to northern Syria has increased during the past year, and the selection of deportees was semi-random. Most …