Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

Ankara is emerging as a winner after Assad’s fall, deploying influence in Damascus. Erdogan is consolidating a position of ...

It’s many years since ISIS, also known as Islamic State, held sway over much of Syria and northern Iraq a time when it ...

Ukraine is pledging support for the new authorities in Syria, which was once a key Russian ally in the Mideast.

Russian natural gas had kept flowing through the country’s pipeline network to Europe under a five-year agreement — even ...

Russia-Ukraine war refuses to die down with both sides digging their heels in. Israel has devastated Gaza after the October ...

Morocco and the UAE have expressed interest in acquiring the jet fighter. But other competitors are edging into the region’s ...

In July 2019, during the twilight of the first Trump administration, the Defense Department kicked Turkey out of the F-35 ...

Syria's new government likely needs arms to solidify its hold on power. That's an opening for its Turkish backers.

With soaring inflation and the ruble dropping to one of its lowest levels against the dollar since President Vladimir Putin ...

Russia’s once-dominant gas supply to Europe via Ukraine, which flowed for decades, is set to end on New Year’s Day with the ...