A decade on, Erdoğan finds himself once again trying to convince the Kurds to back his plans to remain in power. Experience tells him that weakening the Syrian Kurds is necessary to achieve that, and ...

Syria has witnessed two major events, not just one: the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the rise of the Islamist group ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of ...

The web of anti-Western alliances Syria has spun since Mr Assad’s father, Hafez, became president in 1971 is unravelling. Its ...

Shamima Begum (left) had her British citizenship revoked after moving to Syria to join ISIS in 2015 at the age of 15.

While there is no acceptable alternative to building a democratic Syria, the path will be fraught with many challenges.

Kenya has been implicated in several cases of extraordinary rendition, including the 2024 abduction of Ugandan politician ...

Syria's major cities Damascus and Aleppo appear relatively calm, but the seemingly stable beginnings of the transition ...

Syria’s facilitation of foreign fighters to wage an insurgency in Iraq spawned the rise of Al Qaeda in the region. Due to its ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit Turkey on Friday for high-level talks on Syria's ongoing political upheaval following the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad, the Turkish Foreign ...

OP-ED. Syrian political scientist Bayram Balci explains how the collapse of the al-Assad dynasty impacts Turkey, which wants ...

Regional power players would be better served by letting the Syrian people lead their transition and economic recovery rather ...