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

The first time I visited the port city of Latakia, it was timed perfectly with an August sunrise. The taxi driver grabbed a ...

An Iranian father and his son, who had been left stranded in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, have ...

As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both overjoyed and anxious. Assad and his family are Alawite, an offshoot of Shia ...

Yet the world hesitates to rejoice. Why? Because the dominant rebel faction in post-Assad Syria is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ...

The fields along Syria’s Mediterranean coast once produced wheat, tomatoes and olives to feed the country. They were a ...

An Iranian father and son, stranded in Syria following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government, have been safely ...

However, the fate of the Syrian National Army (SNA), which includes Turkmen groups and is supported by Türkiye, remains ...

We’d like to see a stable non-terror state, and one that would be hostile to ISIS, and for Turkey to remain within its ...

The Khmeimim airbase in Latakia has been a lifeline for Russia’s expanding influence in Africa, from Libya to several ...