Why did Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces fail to act, unlike those in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Sudan?

Seemingly out of the blue, Syrian rebels made a swift comeback campaign against the Assad regime in the last week of November. After years as a “frozen

The National has obtained the final version of the deal discussed at a Lebanese government meeting on Wednesday

It is extremely dangerous to infantilize the most powerful person in the world and to assume the proverbial “adults in the room” can make policy that is

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen