With the map of Syria’s conflict decisively redrawn in President Bashar al-Assad’s favor, his Russian allies want to convert military gains into a settlement that stabilizes the shattered nation and secures their interests in the region. A year after the opposition’s defeat in...

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...

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...