The ongoing struggle for power in Syria has significant implications not just for the Middle East, but for the global geopolitical landscape as a whole. As Bashar al-Assad's regime weakens, the ...

BEHIND THE LINES - Ankara appears set on a two-sided strategy to unify Syria under the rule of its Sunni Islamist client ...

Makki was a close aide of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, and the deputy chief of the organisation behind the Mumbai ...

Voters’ choices in what was a record year for national elections will likely have the biggest impact on global prosperity in ...

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the ...

Every single leader—from Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas to the last of the minor P.A. officials and terrorists—have said and ...

A number of universities in the United States have advised international students to return early from winter break ahead of ...

Some American universities asked students to return “prior to the presidential inauguration”, while others urged students to ...

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December ...

The former prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, has died at the age of 92. He was the country's first Sikh prime minister ...

Syria's reconstruction and emergence from isolation depends on rolling back a thicket of sanctions that were five decades in ...

The potential for mass deportations and travel restrictions has spurred more than a dozen U.S. universities to tell ...