What a gift Mahmoud Khalil enjoyed. He was born in the impoverished Middle East to a people without a home – the Palestinians, refugees of conflicts that first broke out nearly a century ago. He grew ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

The American mainstream media may have some ability to get away from government policy talking points when covering domestic ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has ...

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a ...

This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 ...

One young man fled the Syrian war as a teenager. He returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, to a country trying to jumpstart its tech industry.

The agreement was signed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian ...