ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Security forces affiliated with the new leadership in Damascus briefly visited Afrin on Thursday and received a warm welcome from locals, including Kurds who raised the ...

Madh'an, former forensic officer in Syria’s military police, breaks his silence on smuggling thousands of photos exposing ...

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar responsible for documenting the horrors of torture and mass death under the Assad regime has revealed his identity.

Widespread pillaging and the destruction of property in Syria by all parties to the conflict have largely gone unpunished and likely amount to war ...

The commission used satellite images and authenticated videos and photographs to compile the report. Read more at ...

Our chest, our front, our back, our lips – it’s forbidden for anyone to come and touch those parts of our bodies – no one has ...

Without meaningful steps from Tel Aviv, normalisation is a non-starter - but after years of war, Damascus cannot afford a ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

In the first major Israeli-Arab war in 1948, many Palestinians were driven from their homes and sought shelter in Gaza. The descendants of those refugees make up most of Gaza's population today.

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...