As in many parts of the world, history is very much a political weapon in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is difficult to assess conflicts in Syria (and the British/Western interest) for this reason, ...
The Syrian Surprise is the biggest tectonic transformation in the Muslim World since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, marking ...
The Arab Revolt - The Allies thought that defeating the Ottoman Empire would be an extremely simple matter but it was, in ...
First, the Arab-Islamic world, drawing on holy scripture and lived experience, needs to recognise unequivocally that the ...
Today, Syria is free from Assad’s rule, and when the opposition entered the capital, Damascus, their first statement was ...
The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we ...
Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at a ...
BRUSSELS – “It’s finally up to the people of Syria to shape their future,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed on Dec 8, hours after the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ...
I have only one qualification – perhaps a slender one – for commenting on the revolution in Syria: I was among the last ...
Assad is gone, and Russia and Iran have stepped back. But Israel, Turkey and the United States are carrying out airstrikes.
A day after the fall of the SDF-controlled town of Manbij, Turkish proxies advanced today toward the town of Kobani.