Opinion: As Kurdish insurgents disarm and Syria's dynamics shift, Turkey emerges as a regional powerbroker; Israel, despite its strategic daring, finds itself outflanked, risking a slide into a cold war fought through diplomacy, not firepower

Analysis: Syria’s leader shows signs of his jihadist past; atrocities against Druze force Israel to act while trying to preserve ties with Damascus; amid political pressures from Trump and Erdoğan, IDF and police caught unprepared as Golan border spiraled

Opinion: Syria is now under the control of a coalition of Islamist factions, some with an openly jihadist agenda; a political agreement that legitimizes their power would give them time, resources and legitimacy to build an army that could one day stand at Israel’s border, with a clear intention

Opinion: Israel’s proposal to build a massive 'humanitarian city' on the Gaza border raises strategic hopes, and deep fiscal alarm, amid growing debt, inflation risks and warnings of further credit downgrades