However, the appearance of an ironclad alliance may be misleading, as growing signs of strategic and ideological divergences reveal potential fractures in this crucial Middle Eastern partnership. On ...

This is the thinking of the deep state in France. Paris is on the side of Rabat in a war scenario in the western ...

Gaza The foreign ministers of Jordan and Syria have discussed border security at an Arab League meeting in Bahrain, official ...

These include new players in the war economy and militias that now underpin the system, together with the security apparatus that is dominated by members of the Alawite minority to which Mr Al Assad ...