The West should resist the temptation to seek to understand the [Middle East] through our own cultural or epistemological ...

MICHAEL MCFAUL is Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute, Professor of Political Science, and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford ...

Washington is fixated on the twists and turns of a widening political crisis as MAGA world revolts over the Trump ...

We have a moment here in Syria and the Middle East broadly,” John Hurley said at his nomination hearing. “Hopefully we can get the best possible outcome.”The post Senate confirms ...

Barrack says goal of Paris meeting was 'de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that'; Dermer said to represent Israel ...

Many of the blasts, some of them deadly, have been at weapons storage sites, raising questions about whether ordnance from ...

The deals highlight the countries’ deepening relationship under the new Syrian government, and a wave of investment in a ...

A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite ...

Recent violence between Druze and Bedouins is a reminder of how elusive the goal of a cohesive Syria remains, and how easily ...

The Druze live in pockets across the Middle East, and Israeli members of the community want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Even if it does not, the incident seems a grim turning-point in Syria’s transition. It has reinforced fears that the state is incapable of protecting minority groups. It may also have ripple effects ...