The confrontation between Iran, Israel, and the United States may mark a strategic turning point in Middle Eastern geopolitics. As Tehran moves from a doctrine of survival to one of regional influence, the balance of power that has shaped the region for decades is being fundamentally reconfigured. Iran’s shift from …

Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday, June 14, that it carried out a series of simultaneous operations in cooperation with Iraq’s General Directorate of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, dismantling an organized international drug smuggling network. The ministry said in a statement on Facebook that the operation was carried out “as …

The key benchmark is whether armed groups in Iraq, regardless of loyalties or ideology, operate under the authority of the state rather than alongside it In an apparent step forward in longstanding plans to bring Iraq’s militias under state control, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pledged on 27 May to disband …