AT PENPOINTEveryone seems surprised at how fast Bashar Al-Assad fell from the Presidency of Syria, even though the uprising ...

Assad’s regime fell. This is a fact, but it woefully understates the enormity, speed, and consequences of what has transpired ...

Why is the Arab world perpetually at war with itself? Why does it spawn so many extremist groups? Why has it been trapped in cycles of violence and instability for decades?

The fall of the Baath Party’s totalitarian regime in Syria should be good news for the region and the world, as the fall of the despotic Baath regime in Iraq had been. Nonetheless, we must be cautious ...

The extremely rapid and unexpected fall of Syria’s Assad dictatorship is a political earthquake in the Middle East.

The dramatic sequence of events that began on October 7, 2023, with Hamas’s strike in Israel, has cascaded through the Middle East, toppling regimes and ...

Syria's turmoil deepens as opposition captures Damascus; internal divisions and foreign interests complicate peace.

Sooner or later, it will be apparent that toppling the former Syrian leader, Bashar Al-Assad in a whirlwind of dramatic jihadist march on Damascus is the easiest part to what is coming to resemble ...

which he says is the first Syrian political party to promote social liberal ideas. Its focus on individual freedoms has set ...

After Assad, any alternative economic plan that will benefit all Syrians is likely to come from a progressive & organised ...