Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
Post-Assad Syria: How HTS will have to compromise on its orthodoxy for a stable regime
With Islamist HTS consolidating its grip on power,there are fears that it might impose an illiberal constitution or the one ...
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4 arrested in Afrin for raising Kurdistan flag
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Four young Kurdish men were arrested in Afrin on Friday, a day after they raised the Kurdistan flag during a spontaneous reception for security forces affiliated with the new ...
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Afrin Kurds welcome Damascus forces with Syrian, Kurdistan flags
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Security forces affiliated with the new leadership in Damascus briefly visited Afrin on Thursday and received a warm welcome from locals, including Kurds who raised the ...
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Historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul are reopening as the city heals from Islamic State devastation
For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.
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Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations: A New Era of Risk for Global Businesses
President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist ...
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Toward a Marshall Plan for the Levant
In a recent article, The Economist posed a compelling question: Why don’t more countries import electricity despite cross – ...
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Rebalancing Russia’s Mediterranean strategy: From showing the flag to retreating to the gray zone
Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...
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Donald Trump to attend Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans, enhancing security measures
President Donald Trump is set to attend Super Bowl 59 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans this Sunday, marking a historic ...
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Syria’s interim leader holds talks with key ally Turkey on his second international trip
Al-Sharaa, the former rebel leader who headed the insurgents who toppled President Bashar Assad in December, is making his second international trip following his visit to Saudi Arabia.
Inside the ISIS open-air prison camp where thousands of families are forcibly indoctrinated to become fanatics in a lawless dystopia set to become the Ground Zero for Islamic ...
Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...
Saudi Arabia wants to support Syria, says al-Sharaa
The visit by Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the Gulf Arab state could signal his government's strategy of moving away from Iranian influence. Ousted leader Bashar Assad was backed by ...