COLUMN. The Syrian transition, underway for the past year, must avoid sliding back into the kind of brutal authoritarianism ...

If Nicolás Maduro departs, what’s next?

It was the year 2000. Saddam Hussein was driving the car himself. His guest, Hugo Chavez, was in the passenger’s seat. The Iraqi president took his Venezuelan counterpart on a tour of Baghdad that ...

The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite periodic calls for a pivot toward other geostrategic ...

Arab dictators get a job for life. When they are removed prematurely from their jobs they have a heck of a time handling ...

From exile in Moscow, ex-intel chief Kamal Hassan and Assad cousin Rami Makhlouf are spending millions in competing efforts to build fighting forces to lead a revolt along Syria’s coast. The ...

Syrians went to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament in the midst of a coronavirus outbreak and a deepening economic crisis, as President Bashar al-Assad attempts to strengthen his political ...

Documents recovered after the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad show how Syriatel shared client phone data with ...

Under the patronage of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and with the participation of President Ahmad ...

Ousted Syrian leader’s former spy chief and billionaire cousin scheme to destabilise Syria with armed violence.

Photographs of more than 10,000 regime victims capture a campaign of torture and mass murder in haunting, meticulous detail.

Soccer’s scandal-ridden governing body deemed it necessary to launch an annual FIFA Peace Prize and make Trump the inaugural recipient. Critics say this is problematic on many levels: sports and ...