US troop drawdown in Syria on hold amid secta...

Host Adam Lucente speaks to Al-Monitor’s chief business correspondent, Jack Dutton, and Gulf newsletter author Francesco Schiavi about how the Gulf views Iran and the US declaring the Strait of Hormuz open. Listen as they cover why Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates an ...  Show more

Al-Monitor’s Rina Bassist joins host Adam Lucente to discuss the Israeli reaction to US President Donald Trump declaring a ceasefire in Lebanon, including the domestic political backlash over the announcement. The podcast also features Al-Monitor’s Beirut correspondent, Beatrice ...  Show more

Nikolaos van Dam, the Netherland's former Syria envoy and an acclaimed Arabist who has authored several books on the country, says Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's new ruler and the leader of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, ought to be supported by Western governments.

Cengiz Candar is a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish DEM party in Turkey who has spent long years in the Middle East. Candar outlines how Israel has hugely benefited from the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, while Turkey — another big winner — is seeking to thwart Kurdish aspirat ...

The surprise fall of Iran's close regional ally Bashar al-Assad has dealt a huge blow to Tehran's so called axis of resistance running through Iraq onto Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran's loss is Turkey's gain and Tehran is increasingly worried about rising Turkish influen ...

Ankara's latest effort to end a four decades long Kurdish insurgency is opaque and is full of risks and opportunities for Turkey and Syria's Kurds says lawmaker Cengiz Candar.

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