Some argue that the new Bashar al-Assad regime may be more likely to enact significant change in Syria, which could give more priority to ideological ideas than to pure power politics.
New York Times | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
The Obama administration said Tuesday that it would take new steps to ease American sanctions against Syria on a case-by-case basis, the latest sign o...
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
We desperately need a visionary leader in the Arab world, monarch or republican, who steps aside and oversees in his lifetime a peaceful democratic transfer of power.
BBC | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
Syrian writer and pro-democracy campaigner Michel Kilo has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence....
Times Online | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
America is putting the final touches to a hugely ambitious peace plan for the Middle East, aimed at ending more than 60 years of conflict between Isra...
Haaretz | Posted 06.08.2009 | World
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Russian-language reporters Thursday that Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights. ...
AP | SAM F. GHATTAS | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
BEIRUT — Lebanon released four generals held for nearly four years in the 2005 truck-bomb assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri af...
The New Yorker | Seymour M. Hersh | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
When the Israelis' controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks betw...
AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
ROME — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed worry over what he sees as Israeli society's turn to the right, according to a newspaper inte...
AP | ALBERT AJI | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
DAMASCUS, Syria — Lebanon on Monday opened an embassy in Syria, sealing the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the long-feuding ...
AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
Syria launched its first stock exchange Tuesday after years of delays, in the latest step to liberalize its largely state-controlled economy. Finance ...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
Underlying the prospect for renewed diplomacy with Damascus is the universally accepted possibility that Assad will merely feign peace efforts without ever following through -- for which he, and his father before him, are notorious.
David Paul | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
Even as the Obama administration may be consumed by efforts to stem the recession, we appear to be at a tipping point in foreign affairs.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
Where are the large-scale protests and outrage from the Muslim community over the senseless deaths and rape of hundreds of thousands of poverty-ridden African Muslims?
Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Another bizarre incident was added to the string of assassinations and attacks that have plagued Syria for the past year. On October 26th an American ...
Jared Levy | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Nearly two months after the cessation of violence in Hamra, sectarian and political tensions continue to run high.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Syria claims that Israel has made an offer to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal with Damascus. This is particularly intriguing.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.
James Denselow | Posted 12.21.2009 | World