Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.
Security sources have stated that Israeli forces in Syria have reached the southern city of Qatana, around 16 miles from ...
Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...
Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...
The departure of Bashar al-Assad after 24 years in power has left the Syrian state in disarray ... Senior Research Fellow in Middle East Security at the Royal United Services Institute, told ...
The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...
though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze minorities. “But I think they are hopeful of a Middle East where there will be less regimes hostile to Israel ...