The new Syrian state, since the fall of Assad, has focused on pursuing ISIS, carrying out a series of security operations targeting its cells.

As Iraq weighs a new prime minister, attention has shifted to the Shiite Coordination Framework, where Ali al-Shukry is emerging as a leading compromise candidate for the top post.

Over three consecutive meetings, Iraq’s National Sunni Political Council has failed to agree on a single candidate for the post of parliament speaker, the highest office representing the Sunni bloc under the country’s political norms since 2003.

Recent developments in Germany suggest that the Syrian refugee issue has entered a new and complex phase as the country moves toward reviewing its existing asylum policies.

The future Syria, after the end of the transitional phase, will witness political pluralism, as this is one of the fundamental goals for which the Syrian revolution arose.

In a scene reminiscent of the political division that plagued Iraqi Kurdistan before 2003, understandings between the two main Kurdish parties—the KDP and the PUK—have reached a deadlock.

After Syria’s liberation and the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 8, 2024, Syrians stranded in Sudan suddenly find themselves facing a long-awaited possibility: going home.

In a fresh escalation on Iraq’s crowded political stage, Iran-linked militias have launched a fierce campaign against the U.S. president’s envoy to Baghdad, Mark Savaya, going as far as issuing direct threats.

One year after the liberation of Syria, 43 prisons and detention centers have been permanently taken out of the Assad regime’s control.

The Syrian landscape has always been characterized by the complex relationships between its social components, particularly among certain minorities.

The repeal of the U.S. Caesar Act opens a cautious path for Syria’s reconstruction amid ongoing political and economic challenges.

U.S. officials are pressuring Iraq’s Coordination Framework to form a government free of armed factions and strengthen state institutions amid regional stakes.

Despite the Trump administration’s direct complicity in the aggression on the Arab world and the wider Middle East, the president’s new national security strategy sketches a shift in Washington’s priorities, signaling a pullback from the region.

In a move that sent political shockwaves through Iraq, the Official Gazette published a decision listing Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi group as terrorist organizations, a step the Iraqi central bank later walked back, calling it an “unintentional mistake.”

Syria officially joined the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on November 13, 2025, becoming its 90th member state in a network spanning countries across the world.