The Kurdish political scene in the Middle East is no longer synonymous solely with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK); today, ...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday branded an Islamist-led offensive that has captured swathes of territory an attempt to redraw the regional map in line with US interests. His comments in a ...

The Kurds call this area Rojava, “the west”, Western Kurdistan. The term itself is a quiet map of a wider Kurdistan and a condensed national claim. It is exactly the kind of self-definition a state ...

Current data on Syrian refugee camps in neighboring countries. Sept. 6, 2013— -- The United States is gearing up to launch a small-scale military strike on Syria in response to President Bashar ...

The overthrow of other dictators in the region has led not to democracy but to terror and upheaval. Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle ...

The end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history was undoubtedly the biggest story of the week in American politics ...

World News How Syria’s rebels toppled the Assad regime, in 7 maps (CNN) — For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) is reconstituting a capable insurgent force in Iraq and Syria despite efforts to prevent its recovery by the U.S. Anti-ISIS Coalition. The U.S. Department ...

Syria's new leaders vowed to create unity, but also hold to account the people who facilitated a half-century of Assad rule. Those calls for revenge added to the unease of many Syrian minorities, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Recent months have brought considerable optimism about the changes in Syria since ...

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian White Helmets civil defense workers carry a ...