T he new commander of the old city of Damascus was miffed. Syria’s new de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had just reversed ...

Fear about how the country’s new Sunni Islamist rulers will act toward Syria’s various minorities, such as the Kurds and Alawites, is already brewing. Some rights groups and critics have pointed to ...

The Struggle for the Middle East (1989) offers crucial insight into the domestic, regional, and international forces that ...

Bomb disposal teams in Idlib are working to disarm landmines planted by the Assad regime.

Christians in Syria continue to seek more concrete guarantees, although opinions differ on what form these guarantees should ...

The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, stressed that the revolution may remove a regime, but it does not build a state, emphasizing the need to move from a revolutionary ...

The Franciscan friars in Syria are accustomed to overcoming obstacles and living in uncertain times, and now they are bracing ...

For Israel, this evolving situation presents a serious dilemma. Jerusalem remains deeply suspicious of the new government in Syria.

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and ...

Bit by bit, from the eastern Mediterranean to the sands of Aleppo, President Erdogan seems intent on reconstituting some ...

The people of Majdal Shams were scared to normalize or become citizens of Israel because of the Assad regime,” Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told JNS. “Now the situation is different.” ...

On the eighth of December 2024, the 54-year al-Assad rule over Syria abruptly ended, following an 11-day military campaign led by opposition fighters ...