The United States drastically reshaped its policy toward Syria late last week. On 23 May, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control …

Fresh from elections that saw the former governor of the Bank of England win the Canadian premiership, King Charles III opened Canada’s Parliament by…

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Dutch writer Gerda Blees was inspired to write her first novel by a report on the death of a member of a highly unusual commune. The result, We Are…

Frederic Hof has played a key role in recent Syrian history, serving as the last Washington diplomat to handle direct mediation between Damascus and…