By Ari Levin – Security Analyst, Middle East Specialist After nearly a decade and a half of civil war, foreign interventions, collapsed cities, and shattered legitimacy, Syria has emerged from the ruins—not in peace, but in transformation. In a turn that few could have predicted five years ago, Bash...

On the morning of June 13th, 2025, just before dawn, the Middle East crossed a threshold it had long teetered upon. For years, Israel and Iran had exchanged blows in the shadows—covert cyber operations, proxy attacks, assassinations, airstrikes in Syria—but what followed was an unmistakable and dire...