Kurdish-led Syrian group rejects Islamist authorities' new constitution framework
The Kurdish-led group which governs northeast Syria on Friday rejected a constitutional declaration issued by the new ...
Dozens of Syrian Druze make a rare visit to Israeli-controlled Golan Heights
Dozens of clerics and others from Syria's minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan ...
Qatar will send natural gas to Syria to increase its meager electricity supply
Syria's state-run SANA news agency says Qatar will provide natural gas supplies to Syria with the aim of generating 400 ...
The World's Selective Outrage—Alawite Massacres in Syria Deserve Our Attention | Opinion
The blood spilled in Syria's Alawite villages and cities cries out for acknowledgement. Will we listen, or turn away, ...
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Path to Peace: A New Era for Syria
The United Nations' special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, calls for the establishment of a genuine, credible, and inclusive transitional government, following the caretaker authorities’ ...
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Syrian Druze cross armistice line for pilgrimage to Israel
Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel on Friday for their community's ...
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Documents Unearthed After Assad’s Fall Show Syrian Spy Agency Reacting to Israel’s Pager Attack on Hezbollah
As pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon, Syrian security forces were directed to keep communication devices away ...
Syria's Four Wars Explained 14 Years On
Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.
In Netanyahu’s new Middle East, Syria could become Israel’s biggest strategic gain
Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood at edge of the occupied Golan Heights and looked out over ...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Support for Terrorism Undermines His Case To Avoid Deportation
One hopes he will be free to express his opinions unfettered in his homeland of Syria or Algeria, where he is a citizen.
Columbia’s Mahmoud Khalil felt he was being kidnapped as detention unfolded, lawyers say
The lawyers said his treatment by federal authorities from Saturday, when he was first arrested, to Monday reminded Khalil of ...
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Syria: Dangling Between the Past, Present and the Future
Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article last December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, ...