Post-Assad Syria: How HTS will have to compromise on its orthodoxy for a stable regime
With Islamist HTS consolidating its grip on power,there are fears that it might impose an illiberal constitution or the one ...
Press-Telegram6d
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, clears Senate committee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be President Donald Trump director of national intelligence cleared a key ...
Following the fall of Assad, Syrians are learning how to negotiate complex and contradictory freedoms
The religious volatility that has erupted in Syria is not the first sign of religious authoritarianism — but the consequence ...
In the New Syria, Religious Minorities Swing Between Hope and Fear
Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are weighing whether to trust them.
The Rogersville Review11d
40 years on, Hama survivors recall horror of Assad-era massacre
Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...
The Rogersville Review11d
Syria's new leader pledges 'national dialogue conference'
Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ...
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick to oversee US spy agencies, grilled about Snowden, Syria and Russia
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's pick to be director of national intelligence, has faced tough questions from ...
New Republic13dOpinion
Trump Proves the Cruelty Is the Point With HIV Funding Move
Five years after the party took a hard pro-police stance in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, Vice President JD ...
'Look in the mirror': Vance knocks Catholic organization for criticizing Trump immigration policy
JD Vance knocked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after the group criticized some of Donald Trump's immigration ...
Index-Journal18d
Syria's economic pains far from over despite Assad's ouster
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is rebuilding his destroyed family house in the Qaboun ...
Christian Science Monitor18d
LA fires claimed places of worship, but congregations still are helping others
Organized religion provides space for worship and spiritual study. Amid disaster, it can also provide a built-in system of caring and an active faith. “That’s what we’re really hoping to do ...