Opinion Articles
Syria’s million-strong Druze minority finds itself in the crosshairs of war — and forced into a no-win choice to secure its survival.
Opinion Articles
Syria’s million-strong Druze minority finds itself in the crosshairs of war — and forced into a no-win choice to secure its survival.
Report
Recent attacks on the Syrian Druze community threaten to further roil sectarian tensions, radicalize Druze elements, and potentially draw Israel into the civil war.
Opinion Articles
Damascus faces a long decline unless major factors change relating to regime strategy, additional resources from allies, or a collapse in rebel unity of effort.
Opinion Articles
If Syrian rebels are to make political headway with wider social constituencies, they will have to demonstrate a far higher level of military coordination, political skills
Opinion Articles
The Syrian regime looks increasingly brittle. This has major implications for what might follow a nuclear deal with Iran, and indeed for what may follow if a deal is not reached.
Opinion Articles
Tehran has invested perhaps in excess of $25 billion in financial and military support to keep Assad in power and to secure its strategic interests in the country.
Report
Just a few miles from downtown Damascus, pro-Assad Palestinian militias are fighting a grinding battle to the death against the Islamic State.
Report
Syria's regime is now an Iranian proxy, while Saudi Arabia and Turkey support some questionable opposition groups.
Interview
A conversation with two of the country’s best Syria experts on what the rebel gains actually mean.
Report
The once-forgotten front line in north-western Syria has come to the fore again as a new rebel alliance churns out a series of major victories against the forces of president Bashar Al Assad.