Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...
Droubi, the wife of Syria's newly appointed interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, have sparked wide interest in Syria's new ...
Iran’s presence in the Eastern Mediterranean has been dealt a powerful blow as a result of changing conditions in the region, writes ...
Syria's new interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, where they ...
Sham, are refusing to respond to the social and political demands of former President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority, ...
In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...
A study shows that only about 30% of those displaced by conflicts return home, even 10 years after the conflict ends.
A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial.
DENNIS ROSS is Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a Professor at Georgetown University. A former ...