The clashes on the border between Lebanon and Syria and the tens of thousands of Shia Muslims who have ended up as refugees in the Bekaa Valley confirm the significant geopolitical blow suffered ...

But the Shia crescent has now collapsed. Iran, confronting a new reality in Syria, now faces several options, each with significant regional and global implications.

Syria's Assad Is Out. ... Why I Feel Hopeful About Lebanon. After 13 months of grinding war, ... Iran’s grand strategy of preserving the “Shia Crescent” ...

This could spell the end of the famed “Shia Crescent” and Iran’s control of Syria’s foreign and security policy from Tehran through Baghdad to Damascus and Southern Lebanon.

Golan Druze with Israeli citizenship celebrate Syrian Independence Day in Majdal Shams, near the border with Syria, April 17, 2023. Over the past week in Syria, as you all likely noticed, Syrian ...

Syria has long been a lynchpin in the Shia crescent, ... Syria and into Lebanon. What happened Sunday has broken that chain in a way that will have huge consequences for the region.

Iran does not have influence over the region’s various Shia actors by default, but is helped by the way the Arab world regimes have historically treated Shia actors in the region. King Abdullah ...

And the Syrian National Army and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham maintain complex, often conflicting relationships with the Syrian Democratic Forces, shaped by ideological, territorial and strategic differences.

The euphoria of Syria's new dawn has turned to violence. Alleged massacres of minority Alawites have sent a fresh wave of refugees into neighboring Lebanon. There was euphoria in December, when ...

Every time America abandons Lebanon, subversive actors fill the void—Palestinian guerrillas in the 1970s, Syrian occupiers in the 1990s, and Hezbollah in the 2000s.