BEIRUT, Lebanon — American support for a pair of diplomatic initiatives in Syria underscores the shifting views of how to end the civil war there and the West’s quiet retreat from its demand that the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad , step down immediately. The Obama...

(Reuters) - Peer pressure from radicalised fighters in Syria and Iraq is more influential in attracting new recruits from Europe than Islamic State (IS) propaganda, according to British experts. The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence...

By Dr. Awad Al Sulaiman; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- How provoking seeing professional criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu giving his sincere condolence for victims of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo Fifty countries...

By Hussein Ibish (The National)- United States’s strategy in the campaign against ISIL, particularly in Syria, is reaching a crisis point. On the ground, the limitations of the current approach are becoming clear. And politically in Washington, the issue appears to be...