Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

Syria’s facilitation of foreign fighters to wage an insurgency in Iraq spawned the rise of Al Qaeda in the region. Due to its ...

When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

The left’s dangerous plans ignore a critical truth about the Middle East: things change rapidly, and no peace agreement can ...

There are a number of MPs still in Parliament today who should be hanging their heads in shame. Bluntly: they could have ...

Trump says the U.S. ‘should have nothing to do with’ Syria. He’s right.

If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of ...

COLUMN. Shocked by the debacle of its regional proxies, the Iranian theocracy is at a turning point, and may be tempted to ...

Instead of igniting a war that would destroy Israel, the militant group lit the fuse that set much of the region on fire, ...

Washington torched the region and watched it burn through regime changes, Arab Spring, civil wars, and the regeneration of ...

Syria is a weak state with a weak economy and therefore a weak army. Syria is basically a factory for drugs in a corrupted dictatorship. The only business that works is sending drugs to Jordan and to ...

As Syrians expressed obvious relief at the end of 54 years of one of the most brutal dictatorships of modern times, their ...