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Sectarian clashes in southern Syria have created a fragile cease-fire and a potential opening for Tehran. With old proxy ...
While Iran and the US are stealing the spotlight with talks set to continue on Saturday, this week belonged to Syria. Over the past seven days, rivals and allies alike – including leaders and ...
Iran is framing the recent escalation in Syria's south as proof of its long-standing warnings about the post-Assad dynamics ...
Israel is interested in establishing formal diplomatic relations with long-standing adversaries Syria and Lebanon, but the ...
Iran signed new agreements with Syria in 2023 and 2024 that included establishing a joint bank, zero tariff trade, and a second attempt at setting up transactions using local currencies – a move ...
Iran's once strong presence in Syria has almost entirely vanished. Iranian forces fled as Assad was overthrown in December, and the country's embassy in Damascus remains shuttered.
However, Iran, having watched its loose network of regional allies and proxies unravel over the past year, has little to offer Syria. "Even their oil doesn't carry much value when links to the ...
Iran‘s top general in Syria acknowledged they were “defeated very badly” with the collapse of the Assad regime, which represented a candid assessment divergent from other messages out of ...
But with his ousting—and the decimation of Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Gaza, and Yemen —Iran is spread too thin to rebuild a presence in Syria from the ground-up.
Trump pulls sanctions on Syria, extends olive branch to Iran President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia marks a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
The battle of perceptions over Iran’s involvement in Syria, waged by both Washington and Tehran, also reflects the wider animosity between Iran and the U.S. and their inability to talk.