Iran-Syria

Iranian support for Hamas has been affected because of the Islamic Resistance Movement's position towards Syria, prominent Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya said on Thursday. The head of the Hamas...

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, said on Tuesday that the Kingdom considers Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah's interference in the conflict in Syria to be dangerous, adding...

Officials in Jordan have expressed their concerns about Iran's response to any attack on Syria which might be launched from the kingdom's territory. They believe that if Jordan is...

The government in Tehran has warned the United States that an attack on Syria would have "dire" consequences. Analysts expect the US to make some sort of attack on...

Jordanian soil will not be used as a launch pad for attacks on Syria, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The kingdom will remain neutral on Arab issues, as...

Iran's new foreign minister has warned that the United States and Western powers will set the Middle East "on fire" if they go ahead with an attack on Syria....

The Iranian government has ordered anti-American slogans to be removed from public places in Tehran, in a sign of the new rapprochement between the two countries. A spokesman for...

The Secrets of Arabia news site has learned from sources close to Hamas that, upon the request of Tehran, a meeting recently brought together the movement's officials and Iranian...

UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi expressed on Monday his support to the establishment of a new Syrian republic, where Syrian people would "decide its nature."...

The conflict in Syria started two and a half years ago. It has claimed more than 100,000 lives and displaced more than 2.3 million people. The United Nations has...

Iran's cooperative relationship with its Gulf State neighbours is "growing", its Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs has claimed. Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the official Iranian news...

Iran rejected on Monday a US proposal suggesting that it play a "minor" role in the upcoming Geneva II conference, which aims to solve the Syrian civil conflict, saying...

The foreign ministers of Iran and Syria have met in Moscow for discussions about the Syrian conflict ahead of the upcoming Geneva II Conference. Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif and...

Tunisian President Al-Moncef Al-Marzouki said on Monday that Iran would get respect from the Arab world if it adopted the role as an objective mediator to achieve peace in...

The Deputy Director of the CIA has told the Wall Street Journal that the escalating civil war in Syria poses the biggest threat to the security of the United...

Washington's relationship with some of its main allies in the Middle East is going through a critical time; nearly all have enough motives to reassess the nature of their...

The Russian permanent representative at the UN, Vitaly Churkin, has said that giving al-Assad's seat in the Arab League to the Syrian opposition "would not be helpful" to a...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned of the consequences of a military strike against Syria, which could include an attack on the small nuclear reactors near the capital Damascus....

France has given a conditional welcome for Iran's intention to attend the Geneva 2 conference which will seek to negotiate an end to the bloodshed in Syria. Foreign Minister...

Spokesperson of the Turkish Foreign Ministry Levent Gümrükçü indicated that his country has reached a complete agreement with Iran to develop bilateral relations, according to the London-based newspaper Al-Sharq...

Since the start of the Arab spring, the Arab world has undergone many strategic changes. Egypt's position following these changes must be determined, particularly since the Arab Spring has...

The results of a number of security solutions to national and international issues will not last long despite their current effectiveness. While some regimes have managed to suppress their...

Only a few months after the fighting in Syria began in earnest I wrote about the Afghan model there. Unfortunately, this has been confirmed over time. After more than...

The Syrian conflict has dragged on for two years and claimed more than 80,000 lives. So far, the west has avoided direct intervention, though the US, Britain and France...

After more than two years, the conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating. If anything, the situation appears to be getting more intractable, as different foreign interests support...

The Syrian crisis encompasses a number of thorny and complicated issues, the details of which are intertwined and the courses of which branch out. This produces a strange state...

The worst thing that could happen to the Arab world is for the struggle for communal improvement and development to turn into a doctrinal conflict leading to fragmentation and...

For the past 27 months Syria has witnessed blood, destruction, bravery and patience. The Syrians took to the streets, as did their brothers and sisters in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen...

As was widely predicted, reformist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the first round of the Iranian presidential election, gaining more than half of the votes cast. This outcome was not...

However well intentioned, the gathering of a number of Islamic scholars and preachers at a conference in Cairo which addressed the conflict in Syria between 13-15 June ended up...

There are many reasons why the Syrian regime is still in control after more than two years of revolution. At the forefront is its reliance on a minority to...

Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian revolution on the side of the regime demonstrates the conflicts shift from sectarian theory to sectarian reality. It reflects a shift across the Middle...