The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights to ensure a more inclusive society.

After more than fifty years of iron-fisted rule, the Assad regime in Syria was finally overthrown a few weeks ago. Leading the rebel onslaught against the regime was Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, who is more commonly known by his nom de guerre of Mohammad al-Jolani.

Syria's interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year

By Jonathan Spicer, Tuvan Gumrukcu and Maya Gebeily ISTANBUL/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Negotiators are zeroing in on a potential deal to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria's future: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facing an uncertain future.

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not itself guarantee peace in a country so recently riven by autocratic rule

Iraq is recalibrating its Syria policy following Assad's collapse, balancing security concerns with economic interests and sectarian divides. Shia leaders emphasize defending holy sites and countering extremism,

Israeli officials have called for dividing Syria into small autonomous regions and have proposed a federal model for the country. In the following article, I respond to these esteemed Israeli officials by explaining why the federal model is unsuitable for Syria, just as it failed in Iraq.

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.In August that year,

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s migration and displaced ministry on Wednesday said that over 700 nationals were repatriated from the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) housing those with links to ISIS.

Iraq said on Friday that it has extended its concrete wall along the Syrian border amid political and security uncertainty in the neighboring country.

Syria’s interim rulers are trying to form a united national army after the fall of Bashar Assad late last year