The work of the Syria Strategy Project and the considerable policy recommendations found in this report present a realistic ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Just like in 2011, thousands of Syrians, in this case Alawites, wade through the river that serves as a border with Lebanon to escape the persecution by the allied forces of the new government. The ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The overnight clash in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping ...

Syria’s Druze minority is trying to navigate a new, uncertain Syria. Members of the small religious sect find themselves ...

Russia maintains two key military bases in Syria, including an air base in Hmeimim and a naval base in Tartous.

Mesopotamians occupied this region along the vast Euphrates river from the sixth millennium B.C. (8,000 to ... of this region ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...

Construction is anticipated to last until May 2025." "Recreation users are directed to exit the river upstream at Damascus and re-enter the river downstream at Narrowsburg. River use will be ...