No other crisis has redefined Turkey’s place in regional and international politics as much as the Syrian conflict. Turkey ...

Assad’s departure could help Turkey become a key point of transit for natural gas. But renewable energy may offer the more ...

The rapid and complete capitulation of the Assad regime in Syria shows how quickly fragile political systems can transform. Syrians have earned the right to celebrate the overthrow of this murderous ...

The fall of the Assad regime has damaged Russian interests far beyond Syria. First, the collapse is a serious blow to Russia’s reputation as a reliable ally capable of guaranteeing the survival of its ...

Women’s rights organizations and feminist activists in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continue to live in a political culture of impunity and with increased violent backlash on their ...

Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme and UK in the World Programme Bashar al-Assad has been here before. The fall of Aleppo last week in many ways resembles similar lightning ...

The ousting of Syria’s brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad by his own people is not just a momentous national event but one with consequences spilling across the Middle East, nowhere more so than Iran.

Russia’s war on Ukraine threatens the very existence of Ukraine as a state. To date, Ukraine’s leadership, its army, and its people have denied Putin his ambition. Western military and economic ...