The recent developments in Syria represent a new form of political change, the characteristics of which we will better understand in the future. But there is no doubt that these events are part of the ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...

As insurgents raced across Syria in a surprise offensive launched in the country's northwest late last year, officials from several countries backing either the rebels or ...

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The Israeli military says its soldiers killed an alleged militant in Gaza whom it said posed a threat to its forces. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stretched into a ...

Syria's defence minister said Wednesday that Damascus was open to talks with Kurdish-led forces on their integration into the ...

Armed factions who led the final charge on Damascus that toppled Assad are hesitating to take part in a new system led by ...

Many Moslems, including Gulf oil state Arab governments, are openly seeking a way to reform Islam and eliminate this flaw which has been crippling Islam and killing Moslems for over a thousand years.

Civil organizing persisted during Syria’s civil war but also shifted to “translocal organizations” operating in rebel-held ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

For the Islamist militant group, armed struggle now looks like a dead end. Its future in Gaza depends on the civilian ...