The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

By Dr. Loqman Radpey Turkey’s bold foreign policy moves in recent years reflect a determined effort to redefine its regional and global role. From its military interventions in Syria to […] ...

Syria's new authorities are using Islamic teachings to train a fledgling police force, a move officers say aims to instil a ...

There is documentation that terrorists released in similar deals have continued to murder Jews once they were freed. This ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

The army brutally suppressed the protests. In the 1980s, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria sparked uprisings in Aleppo, Homs, and Hama, all of which were violently crushed, resulting in tens ...

Suppose the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and other moderate states are on the same page, acting in concert to lessen the influence of jihadists that ...

Mansour, who founded the “January 25th Revolutionary Movement,” released several videos threatening Egypt’s president while ...

This time, the rearrangement looks far more radical than the puny size of Gaza might have suggested. Perhaps not since the ...

Awda's rising profile and growing ties with Arab states that oppose Syria's new Islamist rulers make him a threat?

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...