The Assad regime survived on violence and complicity. But to be sustainable in any authoritarian context, that violence ...

Blinken will be the latest senior U.S. official to trek to the Middle East since Assad fled to Russia over the weekend as ...

The focus for the U.S.. after Assad's ouster, is on the historic moment for Syria. Left unsaid: the turmoil is potentially ...

The jihadi rebels who toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad say they want to build a unified, inclusive country ...

With the balance of power in northern Syria swinging toward the rebels who toppled the Assad regime, U.S.-backed Kurdish ...

Syria’s new de facto authorities are led by a Sunni Islamist group with extremist origins, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and ...

Bashar al-Assad is safely ensconced in Russia, which had long supported his prison state with arms, fighter jets, and forces ...

The victory of Islamist forces in Afghanistan, and now Syria will strengthen the hands of extremist forces and lead to ...

Human Rights Watch says Mali's armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries, committed abuses against civilians since the ...

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...

Round-up reveals an alarming intensification of attacks on journalists — especially in conflict zones, where over half of the ...

The semi-autonomous region of Puntland is planning a new offensive to combat a growing Islamic State insurgency in Somalia’s ...