BEIRUT: A series of recent setbacks for the Syrian regime on the battlefield – most spectacularly at the hands of ISIS – have sparked outrage in...
BEIRUT: Syrian regime forces and allied groups have suffered more than 800 casualties in the last week, a leading anti-regime activist group said Wednesday,...
BEIRUT: The scope of Syria’s vibrant television series industry, whose premiere viewing period takes place every Ramadan, has largely shrunk to the city...
BEIRUT: Militants from ISIS have expelled the Nusra Front and allied groups from rebel-held neighborhoods in the city of Deir al-Zor on the Euphrates River in...
BEIRUT: The Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, intends to establish an Islamic “emirate” in the country but is holding off for now, according to...
BEIRUT: Rebels in the north and east of Syria have vowed to lay down their arms if they don’t receive help to fight Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS, as an...
BEIRUT: Syria’s once-proud television drama and comedy industry is marking its fourth season of the country’s “crisis” with shows continuing to be produced...
BEIRUT: The militant group ISIS has spearheaded a lightning offensive in Iraq and set off alarm bells in world capitals, anxious about the rising threat of...
BEIRUT: A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood resigned from the Syrian National Coalition Tuesday to protest a letter of congratulations sent by its head...
BEIRUT: This week’s resounding re-election of Syrian President Bashar Assad cements a new phase in the war raging in his country, one that sees...
BEIRUT: Anti-regime activists staged counterelections, rallies and protest actions throughout areas where the armed opposition holds sway, to condemn...
BEIRUT: The campaigns of Syria’s first presidential election are winding down ahead of Tuesday’s vote, which is expected to see President Bashar...
BEIRUT: For most of the Syrian uprising, media outlets throughout the world have described the opposition as being “Western-backed.” The political...
BEIRUT: Syria’s Kurds are facing next month’s presidential election with a mix of defiance, pragmatism and indifference. The June 3 polls are...
BEIRUT: Disappointment with the lack of “serious” backing for Syrian rebels fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad was behind the...
BEIRUT: Supporters of Syria’s armed opposition were shaken over the weekend by the latest atrocity by members of the Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS, whose...
BEIRUT: For Chuck D, one of the United States’ pioneering forces of political rap music in the 1980s, the goal should be embracing the latest in globalizing...
BEIRUT: The two competing narratives over the war in Syria – regime steadily piling up victories versus rebels stubbornly bleeding an embattled enemy...
BEIRUT: As the Syrian war grinds bloodily along in its fourth year the armed opposition has been coming under fire – verbally – over its military...
BEIRUT: Mortar bombs and rocket fire have begun to target the Druze-majority city of Swaida in southern Syria, long quiet for most of the uprising, after...
BEIRUT: Tension has gripped the southern Syria Druze-majority town of Swaida after two recent confrontations between residents and the local branch of...
BEIRUT: Presidential election fever in the southern province of Swaida has generated tension after Druze religious figures attacked a campaign rally featuring...
BEIRUT: A social media campaign to prevent a “genocide of Armenians!” in the scenic Syrian mountain resort town of Kasab exploded recently, in the...
BEIRUT: Northern Latakia province has become, seemingly all of a sudden, the latest location to host an episode of the Syrian uprising-turned-war, with...
BEIRUT: Friday demonstrations of support for a rebel offensive underway in Latakia province near the border with Turkey accompanied fierce fighting around...