(MENAFN- The Conversation) After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to sweep through Syria and topple the Regime of Bashar al-Assad. The offensive ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

While these events have been unfolding, the situation in a de facto self-governing region in the country’s north-east called the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava ...

though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze minorities. “But I think they are hopeful of a Middle East where there will be less regimes hostile to Israel ...

Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...

Here's a map showing who controls what during this ... and it controls large parts of Syria's north-east. The Kurds are an ethnic minority group. Türkiye is at odds with the SDF forces, which ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and Jordan-backed militants in the south, among others. These groups fought a ...

After noting the “changing face of the Middle East,” including the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, Netanyahu said he discussed “all of this last night with my friend, U.S. President ...