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Bashar al-Assad’s warm welcome in the Emirates is a sign of America’s waning influence | Middle East & Africa

Syria’s uprising-turned-civil war has been littered with grave human rights violations that could amount to war crimes.

Amjad al-Malah, 32, and his family were finally able to flee the besieged city of Madaya five years ago and headed to northwestern Syria. His voice tr

Assad’s refusal to step down and his decision to use the might of the military against the population led to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.

Last month, when Vladimir Putin was still massing troops on the Ukrainian border, I decided to read "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," T.E. Lawrence's memoir of the 1916-18 Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. The "private" edition first appeared 100 years ago in 1922, by which time its author had already tired of being called "Lawrence of Arabia." Still, this account of how a young Englishman helped lead a Bedouin guerrilla force tasked with blowing up trains and r...

Years before his 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Putin intervened in Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad. Revisit FRONTLINE documentaries on the conflict.

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The airstrike comes just a day after Syrian state media reported that Israel had fired a number of surface-to-surface missiles from the Golan Heights towards sites in Quneitra near the border.

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Jordan is facing a unique kind of national security challenge. It finds itself embroiled in an open-ended war with a highly sophisticated network of drug traffickers on its border with Syria. The threat is not limited to Jordan, which has been described as a drug transit country, with most narcotics finding their way to the Gulf countries, but this multibillion-dollar network