The government’s gains in the northwest will have an echo nationally, but will they alter Israeli calculations? By crossing the Euphrates River in recent days, Syrian government forces broke through a decade-old boundary that had defined Syria’s conflict, behind which the Kurd-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had sustained a de …

Two big diplomatic wins from this year offer lessons for future Arab efforts toward constructive multilateral action. The Arab world was already badly divided when recent wars and military conflicts broke out between state actors and between them and nonstate actors in 2023. But paradoxically, these tremors have created conditions …

In an interview, Ibrahim Jalal discusses the Southern Transitional Council’s recent takeover of Hadhramawt and Mahra. Ibrahim Jalal was previously a nonresident scholar at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where he specialized on Yemen as well as on the evolving regional security architecture in the Middle East …