Syria's brutal six-year civil war may be slowly winding down, but the country is awash in weapons and an array of local militias and thousands of foreign forces – some of whom may never leave. Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has regained control over large swathes of Syria...

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has spent the past six years fighting a brutal civil war that has killed at least 465,000 of his own people, leveled major Syrian cities like Aleppo, displaced millions of desperate civilians, and helped trigger the worst refugee crisis since World War II....

Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry announced this week it will host a meeting of the  Syrian opposition  later this month. The meeting, which will be held in Riyadh, aims to bring together opposition factions and form a joint negotiating delegation ahead of a new round of UN-brokered...

Over the past 24 hours, the drumbeat of war in the Middle East has risen to a fever-pitch. Saudi Arabia has  provoked  both an internal domestic, and a foreign crisis to permit Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to realise his grandiose vision of the Saudi state. Internally, Salman...