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Bashar al-Assad Has a Syria He’d Like the World to See

By Leila Al-Shami The scene was fake, a photo of the set of “Home Operation,” a film produced by Jackie Chan and inspired by a Chinese mission to evacuate Chinese and foreign nationals from Yemen in 2015. The apartment buildings were real, but not in Yemen. Filming started last month in...

What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad?

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street violence this week – the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum. For 24 hours, loyalists of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr transformed the country’s...

Questions remain over a new Adana Accord

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s recent remarks about Syria have sparked a debate aboutpotential Turkish-Syrian normalization. An updated version of the Adana Accord between the two countries in 1998 would be a convenient tool to pave the way for a Turkish-Syrian rapprochement....