Sam Heller is an Analyst and a Fellow with Century International, the Century Foundation’s center for international research ...

Assad, is a significant defeat for Putin. The club of dictators he supported must now question whether backing the Russian ...

Russia is pulling back its military from northern Syria and posts in the Alawite Mountains but is not leaving its two main ...

Iran appears to be at the most precarious moment in its modern history. Its proxy armies have been crushed in Gaza, Lebanon ...

Gilbert Achcar has been a major left commentator on international affairs for many years. He grew up in Lebanon and has lived ...

As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on December 7, ...

For more than half a century, the Assad dynasty appeared to have an impregnable hold over Syria. Relying on a formidable security apparatus, brutal use of force, and powerful allies such as Russia, ...

When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

Britain, France and Germany have told the United Nations Security Council that they are ready - if necessary - to trigger a ...

Assad's fall from power has ended the Baath Party's and Assad dynasty's long rule over Syria. The Baath Party is secular, but ...

As Iran deals with the strategic setback of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, a vicious cycle of confrontation and ...