A s Druze warlord Walid Jumblatt   served   a sumptuous dinner to a gathering of Lebanese notables here, the talk around the table  was about who  would fill the power vacuum in the region if America reaches a nuclear deal with Iran — and accelerates...

  It mystifies me how in spite of all the disasters that are happening in Syria, Syrians seem to have been taken with the news of the Etilaf’s president, Ahmad Jarba, slapping the SMC’s coordinator, Louay AlMokdad, across the face. For the purposes of this reflection, the...

  For much of the last several months, news of the Syrian opposition has been vastly overshadowed by debate in the United States regarding a possible military response to the August 21 chemical weapons attacks in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, which there is strong...

  The strange thing about the crackup in U.S.-Saudi relations is that it has been on the way for more than two years, like a slow-motion car wreck, but nobody in Riyadh or Washington has done anything decisive to avert it. The breach became dramatic over the past week....