Jordan's recent arrest of 16 men believed to be involved in manufacturing rockets and drones serves as a stark reminder that despite setbacks to…

The current US–Iranian negotiations underway in Oman are markedly different from those held a decade earlier under US President Barack Obama, even…

Sectarianism is firmly embedded in Syria's social fabric. While some try to look past it, others work to reinforce it, as seen most recently in March…

Leaked diplomatic communications revealing what Washington demands of the transitional government in Damascus have shed further light on the evolving…

Iran’s key regional allies have either collapsed or been significantly weakened—from the fall of the Assad regime to the weakening of Hezbollah,…

Events in Syria—both positive and negative—are unfolding at a rapid pace, making it difficult to get an accurate read on where the country may be…

On 14 February 2005, 20 years ago, the Syrian regime under Bashar al-Assad collaborated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah to assassinate Prime Minister Rafic…

Day by day, the picture becomes clearer. Syria, once a captive, has now returned. Liberated from over five decades of captivity, it has reclaimed its…

Writing from Damascus, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited capital, it feels necessary to honour the memory of the hundreds of thousands of…

Now that Bashar al-Assad has fled and his regime has collapsed, Syrians are taking the first steps in the very long and challenging journey of…