U.S. President Donald Trump needs to deal with Syria’s state school curricula as he is attempting to do with Harvard University's lessons.The post Don’t ignore Syrian education in the pursuit ...

A message from Tom Barrack, whom Trump appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to Ankara, has caught the attention of many. Barrack made an assessment about Europe, the U.S., and the Eastern world—that is, ...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two Sunni powerhouses that have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the ...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...

This paper analyses the structure of the Constitutional Declaration ratified on 13 March 2025 and evaluates its contents, ...

Baghdad has the unusual ability to force its visitor to open up about the past and its pains. The ability becomes more pronounced when the friends choose to have dinner on the banks of the Tigris only ...

In diplomacy, there are moments that defy conventional wisdom — moments when what was deemed impossible suddenly becomes negotiable. The surprise meeting between ...

The soil of Houran is not passive terrain - it is a witness to ... that a nation can be erased by redrawing maps and dropping bombs. But Syria is not just territory. It is Nawa and Yarmouk ...

It has begun to create what it intends to be indefinite “buffer zones” on four fronts: in Gaza, on the borders with Lebanon and Syria, and in the West Bank (see map). Map: The Economist The ...

Hamidia, some 50 kilometers southwest of Damascus, most homes, like that of sheep herder Abu Mo’ath, are built from black basalt stone, a hallmark of the region’s volcanic terrain. The air carries a ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...