An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.

Jihadi Islam is the fundamental evil driving violence and oppression in the Middle East and beyond. The Jewish people and the ...

In northeastern Syria, the bet on the Israeli regime is indirect and unspoken. Backed by the United States, the Syrian ...

In Aleppo—within the neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafiye, and Bani Zayd—we are once again witnessing what the Kurdish ...

The renewed attacks on the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh in Aleppo are not perceived by many Kurds ...

Between competing narratives of marginalisation and destabilisation, protests calling for federalism on Syria’s coast could ...

The climb to Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery is deliberate and demanding. Three hundred forty stone steps wind up a stark, ...

The Arab Alawite population, concentrated along the country's western coastline and in major cities, finds itself defenseless ...

ALEPPO: Syria's Defense Ministry announced a ceasefire on Friday after three days of clashes between government forces and ...

Chris Bambery considers Trump’s plans for Venezuela since the ousting of Maduro “Better the devil you know than the devil you ...