For analysts familiar with the politics of Syria, the country’s descent into chaos amounts to an all-too-predictable pattern. It also parallels what  Rami Makhlouf , a major regime figure and first cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bluntly announced in an interview with...

  A new Association founded recently, all its members are former prisoners. Their guilt wasn't a crime but politics.   "Freemen of Tadmor Prison" - Tadmor is the Arabic name for Palmyra- is an independent social gathering combining a range of...

President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister  Tayyip Erdogan held a joint press conference on May 16, 2013. They discussed trade, security commitments in NATO, and the situation in Syria. Excerpt from the press conference: "Q My first question to you, Prime Minister. You...

  The American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published an Interview with Frederic Hof, former special adviser for transition in Syria at the U.S. Department of State. Titled '' The Hard Road to Syrian Peace". During the interview how dissolved an important American...