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 ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

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

The army brutally suppressed the protests. In the 1980s, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria sparked uprisings in Aleppo, Homs, and Hama, all of which were violently crushed, resulting in tens ...

Mansour, who founded the “January 25th Revolutionary Movement,” released several videos threatening Egypt’s president while ...

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 ...

The Palestinian prime minister says it's unacceptable for any entity other than the Palestinian Authority to run the Gaza ...