Syria

Syria after Assad

Rebuilding Syria’s northeast: Damascus’ toughest test yet

After 15 years of Kurdish self-rule, control shifts to government, with security, integration, economic challenges ahead
War on Iran
Who are the Kurds and what does Trump want from them?
Inside Syria
Damascus authorities ban alcohol sales in non-Christian areas
War on Iran
Israeli commentator says Iran war will lead to ‘Sykes-Picot 2026’
War on Iran
Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen
Jonathan Cook
War on Iran
How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire
Soumaya Ghannoushi
War on Iran
Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran
David Hearst
War on Iran
Israeli society is intoxicated by war and the dream of expansion. It cannot last
Abed Abou Shhadeh
War on Iran
Obituary: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and dominant political figure
Iran Tensions
US-Iran tensions: How Trump was dragged into war
David Hearst
Occupation
Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism
Soumaya Ghannoushi
Fall of Mosul
Impregnated, brainwashed and broken: The misery of IS sex slaves
Fall of Mosul
Obama to send 450 more US military personnel to Iraq
Syria War
More than 2,000 flee into Turkey from Syria as Kurds battle IS
Fall of Mosul
ANALYSIS: One year since IS took Mosul, how fares the fight?
Syria War
Syria rebels overrun key army base in Daraa province
Syria War
Obama’s Middle East policy might lead to Assad’s exit after all
Nicholas Noe
Fall of Mosul
Talks, not bombs, will defeat IS, UN high commissioner tells MEE
Syria War
49 killed following Syrian government airstrikes in Idlib
Sport
Champions League Final gives Syrian refugees a welcome break from reality
Syria War
Middle East reporting: The need for honest journalism
Ramzy Baroud
Human Rights
Why ‘national security’ is a fallacy
Ian Sanjay Patel
Inside Lebanon
Nasrallah vows to clear militants from Lebanon-Syria border