It was spring 2012, the height of Libya’s revolution against their dictator Muammar Gaddafi. As the intrepid revolutionaries trickled into Benghazi’s…

Recent remarks by Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan about working with Damascus to “liberate” Syria’s oil fields has rekindled interest in the…

Amid all the drama between the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus two weeks ago to Iran's launching a retaliatory attack on Israel…

Since the outbreak of war between Hamas and Israel, there has been a strategic repositioning of militias in Syria affiliated with Iran.They have…

Last week, Syrian social media accounts posted a declaration attributed to an until recently unheard-of group naming itself the 10 August Movement…

Ali Douba — one of the veteran security chiefs in Syria — has died at his home on the Syrian coast, aged 90. Although retired for over 20 years, the…

History is riddled with stories of ambitious women who emerge from the shadow of their powerful husbands to have political careers of their own…

In November 2017, armed groups under the direct supervision of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani converged on Al-Qaim…