The “new relationship” between Hamas and Damascus will be built on punctual interests, according to al-Hal Net. An entire decade of disconnection and tension between the Palestinian Hamas movement and Bashar al-Assad could be replaced by a new contract establishing a post-2011 phase. The matter, however, remains subject to developments …

Only days after the Lebanese Prime Minister Nagib Mikati announced that his country could expel Syrian refugees, as the economic hardship there made it impossible to “keep welcoming them,” Lebanon, Syria and Egypt signed a gas flow agreement. According to the official agency SANA, the deal allows the pumping and …

The Biden administration’s weak leadership — to hold accountable those who are violating Iran sanctions — is likely a critical reason the Iranian regime is flamboyantly ignoring the US and forging ahead — soon, most likely, to become a nuclear state. Presumably to take even further advantage of the Biden …