The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.

Sharaa spends his days conferring with advisers and meeting a stream of visitors—U.S. diplomats and leaders from Turkey, ...

HTS has long had a strained relationship with the other major rebel bloc in Syria, the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army ...

Syria’s new regime, led by a group with former ties to al Qaeda, is on a mission to gain international legitimacy – and it’s ...

Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

What comes next? HTS has proven competent, and at least so far — pragmatic. But an enormous amount of uncertainty lingers on ...

Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls ...

Assad’s regime fell. This is a fact, but it woefully understates the enormity, speed, and consequences of what has transpired ...

The collapse of Assad’s regime undermines Russia’s and Iran’s longstanding investments in Syria while Turkey stands to gain ...

The downfall of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria signals a considerable shift in the Middle East. Türkiye, being a significant ...

The Assad regime used its brutal prison system to extort the families of prisoners, impoverishing thousands.

History tells us that where a fragmented coalition of armed groups finds itself in a political vacuum, more violence is ...