
Syria’s Emerging Drug Empire Isn’t Going Away Soon
Drug trafficking is nothing new in the Middle East but the last decade of conflict has given way to a

Drug trafficking is nothing new in the Middle East but the last decade of conflict has given way to a
Last year saw a significant increase in the number of attacks against US forces in Syria and that trend has

After suspending political and economic ties with its northern neighbor for nearly 10 years, Jordan is currently going at full

The physical destruction from the Syrian civil war has devastated the economy – as one would expect. Equally predictable are

Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria has significantly expanded its territorial control in the past several years, prompting many to predict

The value of the Syrian pound has been in freefall. A financial crisis in neighboring Lebanon, a national lockdown due

The focus on Syria long has been, understandably, on the civil war. But there is another, potentially equally serious, conflict

On February 2, a crowd several hundred strong gathered in Idlib province in northwest Syria and began marching toward the

Attention to Syria has slipped. The gaze of the world, when cast toward the Middle East, now hovers over Libya,

The ongoing Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria presents the worrying prospect of many captured ISIS fighters taking advantage of

Abandoned by their American allies, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been left with one option: doing a deal with

As the war in Syria winds down, it is inevitable that its impact will be measured in terms of casualties.

The war in Syria brought work to a halt for many people. But for hundreds of public servants in former

Rabea Kalawandy, a war correspondent and social-media influencer, was arrested on July 8 in Aleppo. This might seem sadly unremarkable

After the Damascus regime successfully regained control of rebel-held territories in Syria, the number of opposition figures arrested skyrocketed. Yet,

Following the territorial defeat of ISIS in northeastern Syria, Kurdish-led local authorities are now grappling with bringing the group’s members
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