After seven years of operating discreetly in exile, the National Syria Gathering held its first conference in Damascus under government auspices and in the presence of over 100 Syrian businessmen from inside and outside the country. The conference, opened by Finance Minister Mohamed Abazid,...

Since taking power in December, the new Syrian administration has prioritized internal security issues and breaking international isolation in the first two months after Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, collapsing the Baath party regime's 61-year rule. Syria's new government initially focused on...

Celebrations erupted across the world after the US, Egypt, and Qatar announced a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas to end more than 15 months of fighting in Gaza, in return for the release of hostages and gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the war-torn strip. The...

With Israel poised to attack Iran, having already blindsided friends and foes alike with its blitz against Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, all the talk is of an inexorable slide towards a new, pan-Middle Eastern war. Yet brakes remain to halt a regional fall into a wider conflagration...