Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze minorities. “But I think they are hopeful of a Middle East where there will be less regimes hostile to Israel ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

However, despite being the architects of Assad's downfall, HTS's ability to govern over Syria, filled with opposition ... Senior Research Fellow in Middle East Security at the Royal United ...

The closest human rights activists could get to it were satellite images on Google Maps. However, when rebels broke into ...