Opinion

The Education Ministry apparently altered illustrations of women, removed historical material and omitted lessons on citizenship, prompting backlash from Syrian society

One concerns what kids learn in school; the other involves women's legal rights and their relationship with the state. Both beg the question: what is the nature of the emerging Syria?

Those who demand transparency from others should begin by practising it themselves

Iran's Supreme Leader now faces a US president who is seeking an achievement to rescue his legacy. That need may open the door to an agreement or escalation

A Democrat-majority Congress will clip his wings at home, but he will have far more freedom to act on foreign affairs, given the powers he still retains as commander-in-chief

Jordanian airstrikes that killed 10 people in southern Syria on 26 October have brought relations between Amman and Damascus to their most critical point since Assad's fall

During my keynote speech at the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (ICESCO) main session, titled "Civilisational…

On the question that matters most—whether Israel's security doctrine should be fundamentally reconsidered—the voters showed little appetite for a reckoning

They would turn up the television when they wanted to lower their voices. In Syrian homes, criticism had its own ritual. First, the sound of a…

Ending polio is no longer primarily a question of whether we have the tools; it is whether we can secure access, sustain political commitment and finance the final effort

Without enforceable safeguards and independent oversight, Syria's new authorities risk repeating the same practices that eroded public trust in security institutions under Assad

Those backing the RSF in Sudan also appear to back Khalifa Haftar in Libya, Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia, and southern secessionists in Yemen