Syrian Conflict

On May 7th, 2013, the United States and Russia agreed to hold an international conference to end the war and "prevent the dismantlement of Syria". The agreement was announced...

Three years after the Syrian revolution began the number of foreign fighters in the ranks of the Free Syrian Army and revolutionary brigades have increased; however this so-called 'immigration'...

Lebanon's Hezbollah is perhaps best known for its strikes against Israel. It fought off an Israeli invasion in 2006, and has been seen across the Middle East as a...

After more than two years, the conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating. If anything, the situation appears to be getting more intractable, as different foreign interests support...

The Syrian crisis encompasses a number of thorny and complicated issues, the details of which are intertwined and the courses of which branch out. This produces a strange state...

The worst thing that could happen to the Arab world is for the struggle for communal improvement and development to turn into a doctrinal conflict leading to fragmentation and...

The Arab Spring hit the Middle East to the core but has come unstuck in Syria. Nevertheless, the issue of democracy is now to the fore with demonstrations calling...

Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal in January 2011 that his country is immune to the so-called "Arab Spring" that had already started in Tunisia and...

"Assad or we burn the country" said the Syrian dictator from the outset of the revolution. A grim promise made in 2011 that if the demonstrations didn't stop he...

For the past 27 months Syria has witnessed blood, destruction, bravery and patience. The Syrians took to the streets, as did their brothers and sisters in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen...

However well intentioned, the gathering of a number of Islamic scholars and preachers at a conference in Cairo which addressed the conflict in Syria between 13-15 June ended up...

There are many reasons why the Syrian regime is still in control after more than two years of revolution. At the forefront is its reliance on a minority to...

In a meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal spoke about the US position in Iraq with frankness unusual in...

Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian revolution on the side of the regime demonstrates the conflicts shift from sectarian theory to sectarian reality. It reflects a shift across the Middle...

From Lebanon to Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen and Iraq, not to mention its support for the Syrian opposition, Saudi Arabia's foreign policy appears to be contradictory. While attacking the...

In a small motel room in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, within sight of the mountains of Syria, a former Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter sits with his...