By Mohammed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt The people of the Middle East are waiting to see if Washington will withdraw from the region, or if the administration of US President Donald Trump, like the four previous administrations, will instead become more deeply mired in the Middle East’s quicksand. Despite all the glittering slogans of successive US administrations, the region’s ...
The March 10, 2025, agreement between the SDF and the Damascus government included provisions on overcoming religious and sectarian divisions, officially recognizing the Kurds and securing their constitutional and citizenship rights and establishing a ceasefire across all of Syria. Regarding the country’s territorial and administrative structure, the most important article concerned the integration of the region under SDF control and ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack, lays out the Trump administration’s blueprint for reshaping West Asia quite explicitly in his article titled “A Personal Perspective – Syria and Lebanon Are the Next Pieces for Levant Peace”. Describing the Gaza deal signed on October 13 in Sharm el-Sheikh as “a defining moment ...
The wars waged and supported by the US continue on different fronts. Israel’s attack was repelled by Iran and the US/Israel side was forced to declare a ceasefire. In Gaza, the Palestinian people continue to resist the occupation despite the Israeli genocide. In such a bloody and violent period, the new US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria, ...