By Ibrahim Al-Marashi Associate Professor of Middle East History at California State University San Marcos Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/12/8/ibn-khalduns-asabiyya-and-bashar-al-assads-rapid-downfall#ixzz8tqbdLikS The Syrian army disintegrated in the face of the opposition offensive because of low…

The axis of resistance of Tehran, Damascus, and Beirut is gone and no longer exists, the IDF said on Sunday night following the fall of the regime of Bashar Assad. According…

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels entered the northern Syrian city of Manbij after taking control of most of the surrounding area from US-allied Kurdish forces there, a Turkish security source said on Sunday. Syrian rebels in…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded Thursday to President Biden's threat to suspend military aid if Israel invades Rafah, declaring in a video: "If Israel needs to stand alone, it will stand alone."…

Biden told CNN that civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of US bombs and other ways Israel goes after population centers. US President Joe Biden warned Israel, for…

Israel has reportedly begun launching airstrikes and evacuated some 100,000 of the over one million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah. Dozens of Gazans are trying to cross the border to Egypt…

President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a 30-minute phone conversation following the evacuation of Palestinians from Rafah. Hamas’s acceptance of a Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and…