"I think this is an excellent decision," former intelligence officer tells JNS about the appointment of Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian.

In June 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before cameras and declared that Israel would become a “global communications centre.” The plan was elegant in its simpli ...

Syria’s foreign minister is hinting that Damascus and Jerusalem may be able to come to more arrangements in the future, in the wake of talks held in Paris in January.

There is fresh outrage over U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee's remarks in an interview that Israel could “take it all” ...

Israel and Syria agreed to hold “frequent and ongoing” meetings to reach a security agreement on the second day of renewed negotiations in Paris on Tuesday. The talks that began on Monday, the first ...

Israeli forces have moved beyond the Golan disengagement lines into southern Syria, exercising effective control over ...

As someone who has spent decades studying the conflicts in the Middle East, there is little that can shock me, but some of the videos now coming out of Syria have left me sickened. In one, footage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ONE YEAR after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria, under Ahmed al-Sharaa, is perhaps a nicer place to live, but the suspicion that ...

Senior administration officials have called Arab officials to explain that a Huckabee comment that Israel can control much of ...

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said last Thursday that the Israeli military’s spraying of chemical substances over large agricultural ...

January 2026 exposed, with measurable clarity, how deeply the Israeli public's perception has diverged from strategic reality. Analysis ...

[DAMASCUS] For years, Hezbollah moved through Syria like a second army: thousands of fighters, open supply lines, and bases visible on satellite imagery. The group helped keep Bashar Assad in power ...