With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Try Cliovis today & build your own timeline for free: <a href=" PLUS get a 50% discount using the code GK50 to get the full ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...

U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners "cannot last ...

The more concrete evidence of the formation of a distinct community can be traced back to the British colonial period ...

Iran, a Shi'a power, has been waging war in both Iraq and Syria against Sunni Arab forces. In Iraq, the Iranian-backed Shi’a militias have fought against IS, as well as committing atrocities ...

But look beyond appearances, and Lebanon has changed. Hizbullah’s Shia heartlands in south Beirut and Lebanon’s southern ...

In early 2025 Iran and Pakistan agreed to cooperate on economic, diplomatic and military matters. Each country has different definitions of these items. While both nations border Afghanistan, Iran has ...

In 1947, under President Truman, George F. Kennan formulated the “containment” policy of preventing any expansion of the Soviet Union or its influence. It became “the basic United States strategy for ...

Assad’s regime in Syria was overthrown, an Iranian magazine revealed details of the first meeting between former Iranian ...

There is a case to make for fresh thinking about Gaza. But Trump’s plan is not fresh thinking; it’s fresh riffing.