Since the Assad regime fell after more than 50 years in power, the extent of Syria’s cultural isolation is becoming clear.

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Syria’s new leaders hosted a conference at which Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) leader Ahmad al Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al Jolani) ...

That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...

Assad’s final ouster appeared abrupt, it had its roots in Syria’s 2011 antigovernment protests, and Syrians will now face ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on ...

Sharaa’s plans for Syria risk repeating past rebel mistakes. Negotiated, inclusive constitutional reform is key to Syrian ...

Now, foreign countries are trying to steer Syria’s new de facto leaders toward an inclusive government free of sectarian ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...