Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Jihadist Past Points to a Russian Future for Syria Unless Europe Acts
The former leader of a Salafi-Jihadist group with prior links to Al-Qaeda is Syria’s current interim president. Once a frequent...
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The Grim Status Quo: A Deep Dive into the Pervasive Racism Exposed by the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
The war in Ukraine, when viewed side by side with recent wars around the world from Yemen to Syria to...
Syria and Ukraine: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Photo credits: image from the Syrian Civil War (left) from The Guardian - image from the war in Ukraine (right)...
Hezbollah After Syria: More Lethal, Less Domestic Support
Photo Credit: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images This February, Arab Gulf states engaged in talks with...
No Post-Conflict Decontamination Obligations Set Before UN First Committee Vote
VADIM GHIRDA/AP NEW YORK—The U.N. General Assembly’s upcoming vote on a resolution to address the effects and use of depleted...
Why Do Cease-Fire Agreements Mediated by Third Parties Fail?
The remains of a market in Maarat al-Noaman, in Syria’s northern province of Idlib, after an airstrike Tuesday. Dozens of...
Under Different Kinds of Attacks: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
The camp in Dalhamiyeh is among hundreds of informal clusters of Syrian refugee tents in the Bekaa Valley | Photo...
BLOCKED Muslim Ban 2.0
The author, Ionut Gitan, with his makeshift sign at JFK airport, snapped by a photographer at New York Times |...
Monday Briefing | October 17
Protesters during an Aug. 6 demonstration in Addis Ababa. Photo | Tiksa Negeri of Reuters Stories to Follow: US and...
Monday Briefing | October 3
Angela Merkel and Viktor Orbán. Courtesy of Getty Images. Stories to follow These days, Aleppo makes headlines all too often....