The withdrawal marks the demise of a yearslong effort in which Tehran used Syria as a hub in its regional strategy to spread influence and wage proxy war against the U.S. and Israel.

The U.S. military led strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq in the past week that resulted in the capture of an ISIS ...

Gaston argues that efforts to exercise influence through proxies—what she calls “local, hybrid, and substate forces”—are becoming “normalized” as new technologies permit remote warfare and as fragile ...

Career timelines of the soldiers thought to be behind the New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks contradict early law enforcement ...