Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once ...

The latest war ... keep Iraq from going up in flames and stabilize Syria’s new authorities. The question remains: will the Trump administration conclude that Israel must be forced to take the path of ...

It was predictable that Iran would retaliate against Trump’s bombing of its nuclear sites early on Sunday. The question was ...

Will the Middle East emerge from its disastrous post-Ottoman century? With Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon all weak, the region’s reconstruction in ways that permit peace, stability, and human ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said that Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” soon after<a ...

My first question in the aftermath of Sunday morning’s strike on Iran is: Does President Donald Trump understand whose side ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long lobbied American presidents to help Israel bomb Iran. None have taken him ...

Several reported sites of clashes between Assad-linked forces and Syrian government forces (Google Maps annotated by LWJ) On March 6, Syria witnessed the most intense and bloodiest clashes between the ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

Let us look at an ethnic map of Syria. The Alawites, Sunni Muslims and Kurds were all forced into countries whose boundaries benefit none of them. In Iraq, it is no different with the Sunni, Shia ...

While large portions of central Syria are simply classified by the ISW as "lost regime territory," and without clear proprietors, the region near the tripoint border with Jordan and Iraq is still ...