Assad’s future is looking brighter these days. He has regained control over much of Syria and is amassing loyalist forces in the north in preparation for the...
The fall of Eastern Ghouta and Deraa to forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar Assad over the past few months represent a crowning success for...
The arrest, this week, of several prominent militants in Syria by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham is a third and possibly final chapter in the group’s coup against its...
In the past eight days alone, over 1,000 people were killed in Aleppo as Russian aircraft bombarded the city. Russia and the Assad regime’s fresh offensive on...
On Thursday last week, the Nusra Front seceded from its parent organization Al-Qaeda and rebranded under the name Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, a move many experts...
On Monday June 27, eight suicide bombings struck the predominantly Christian town of Al-Qaa on the Lebanese border with Syria. Lebanese security officials...
The recent battles in the northern Aleppo between Syrian Arab rebels and Daesh (ISIS) around Al-Rai underline the of importance the region and the difficulty...
The regional political scene was recently marked by several events of significance, linked to the conflict in Syria and the continuing war against ISIS. These...
The rise of ISIS and other extremist groups in Syria has justified President Bashar Assad’s narrative that his regime is engaged in a “war against terror” –...
Just a few weeks after an Israeli airstrike killed several Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp members near Qunaitra in southern Syria, pro-regime...
ISIS has carefully crafted its media campaign and branding strategy using terror to appeal to its international audience and creating revulsion among its...
The recent terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical publication known for its scorching vilification of religious symbols and...
Lebanese make up a majority of Australian Islamists fighting alongside radical organizations in Iraq and Syria. Social exclusion, criminal gang networks and...
The international coalition against ISIS has yielded contentious results. While ISIS control over large swaths of territory in both Syria and Iraq may have...
The Arab Spring has pushed security concerns atop priorities of Arab leaders, who often resort to the prism of conspiracy theories to justify regional...
The rise of ISIS on the ashes of the Arab Spring has culminated with a new generation of revolutionaries adhering to a distorted version of Islam. This new...
The recent wave of kidnappings plaguing the Bekaa Valley region, after the killing of a Shiite Lebanese soldier by Syrian radical factions, underlined the...
Relying on hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Mosul banks and the control of oil and gas fields in Syria and Iraq, ISIS has touted its ambition to...
The Lebanese judiciary has announced that it intends to speed up of the trials of Islamist prisoners. This represents a last-ditch effort to defuse the...
For three years, the Syrian war has fueled anti-army grievances among many Lebanese Sunnis, the large majority of whom support the revolution and claim the...
Jordanian fighters have come to play an important role in the protracted Syrian conflict. Unlike the previous generation of Jordanian jihadists – Al-Qaeda...
The Syrian conflict is destroying the economy and creating a long-term economic crisis for Syria that will make a lasting peace in the future even more...
Egypt’s Salafists emerged as strong political players when the movement secured over 25 percent of Egypt’s parliamentary seats in 2012. Today...
The growing success of jihadist groups in Syria has appealed to what is slowly becoming a transnational jihadist fraternity. In recent months, hundreds of...
A lengthy uprising and the growing radicalization of the Syrian street have fueled the rise of jihadist fighters. Over recent years, the Al-Qaeda franchise...