Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...

Analysis: The arrest of an Egyptian fighter by HTS has raised speculation about what would assuage Cairo's fears about ...

Israel, which is already facing the looming threat of an Iran-Israel, must now deal with the emerging challenge from Turkey ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time of hope and fear for Syrians concerning future governance in the long-war-torn country. While it’s unclear ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

This time, the rearrangement looks far more radical than the puny size of Gaza might have suggested. Perhaps not since the ...

Awda's rising profile and growing ties with Arab states that oppose Syria's new Islamist rulers make him a threat?

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...