Will he walk the walk and not just talk the talk? And if he doesn’t win in the elections, will he peacefully stand aside for ...
With Assad gone, Syria’s new government has a chance to prove that his rule was not only vicious but built on a lie. The fact ...
The HTS chief has evolved from jihadist leader to rebel statesman while fighting to overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
Assad on Monday issued his first statement since the dramatic fall of his regime last week, asserting that "asylum was never ...
Al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is a Sunni Muslim with past ties to al-Qaeda, and its Syrian satellite, Jabhat ...
Shibani, who was an active participant in the 2011 Syria uprising, was named as foreign minister in the new transitional ...
"was carried out by rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group, according to a Syrian government official and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime group ...
Syrian pro-democracy moderates can’t shake off their memories of when al-Golani first rose to prominence in chaotic war-torn ...
"In 2011, Baghdadi sent Jolani to Syria with funding to establish al-Nusra Front, a covert faction tied to ISI. By 2012, Nusra had become a prominent Syrian fighting force, hiding its IS and al ...
This narrative, and the fear of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, kept many Alawites bound to Assad even as the cost became unbearable. With Assad gone ...