The Spanish novelist and essayist Javier Cercas is one of the most influential voices in contemporary European literature. Known for blurring the…

Will Syria gain from the war with Iran, or lose because of it? Damascus has found itself facing a new test, hemmed in by multiple theatres of…

The prisoner swap carried out on 26 February between the Syrian government and armed factions in Sweida was presented as a humanitarian breakthrough…

The US-Israeli war on Iran has exposed faultlines beyond the battlefield. It has laid bare the fragility of the transatlantic alliance and the…

To empty the Gulf states of their expatriate populations would be to change them fundamentally and detrimentally. For a century, since the dawn of…

In Part 1, the Kurdish-Syrian leader Sipan Hamo spoke of his upbringing, politicisation, and participation in armed struggle, which led him to found…

Escalating tensions between the US and Europe over the reservations many European leaders have about the Iran war could nevertheless lead to…

When Egypt raised domestic fuel prices by up to 17% in early March, officials blamed it on global energy markets that were destabilised by the war…

In 1979, during a meeting between a delegation from the Arab Writers Union and members of the National Progressive Front, the late Syrian poet…

Syrian Kurdish leader Sipan Hamo was this month appointed the country’s Deputy Minister of Defence for the Eastern Region, marking the latest chapter…