America appears to have a new doctrine in Syria: accommodate Islamists, appease Ankara, and expose vulnerable minorities ...

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Yet the Trump administration appears to be picking a winning side in the conflict, opting to allow Damascus’s military ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

In recent years, the Sulaymaniyah governorate in eastern Iraqi Kurdistan has become a hub for Iranian narco trafficking. The ...

If Turkey begins to use Damascus as a mirror when looking at its own Kurds, then that day it is not merely conducting a ...

Tom Barrack, a 78-year-old Santa Barbara real estate mogul and polo hobbyist who became the U.S. envoy to Syria and ...

The SDF has suffered a series of defeats to government forces in recent weeks, but the future for Syrian Kurds need not be ...

President of the KRI Nechirvan Barzani’s quiet diplomacy could secure Syria’s northeast, protect US energy interests, and prevent regional spillover.

Iran is complex. But a Rutgers professor says there is a clear solution to the U.S. avoiding war and promoting democracy.

The United States, Israel and Syria announced Tuesday that senior Israeli and Syrian officials met in Paris under U.S. auspices, marking a renewed diplomatic push that includes plans for closer ...

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