The U.S., Israel, Russia and Turkey all face major questions as they look to the future of a post-Assad Syria.

The Turkish president has expanded the country’s military and diplomatic footprint from Africa to the Middle East in a way ...

Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

Most people need a passport, a visa, and a long-haul flight to hop between continents. But in Istanbul, all you need is a ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for Turkey to be excluded from the European Union’s plans to ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...

The pro-West Druze of southern Syria have all but declared independence from the new jihadist rulers of the country. They need allies.The post Druze sovereignty in Syria is in America’s ...

Safeguarding victory is often more difficult than achieving it. That is self-evident, all the more so when powers and factions are eagerly seeking to overturn the shifts we had seen in Syria a few ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of forging their own path to survival among the country’s powerhouses. They are now ...