(Atlantic Council)- Ever since it kicked off this macabre dance by shooting a bunch of teenagers in 2011, the Assad regime has masterfully manipulated Syria’s struggle—and story. Not only has it escalated, militarized, and radicalized the struggle, from a peaceful contest for control that...

(The Guardian)- And so the Brexit cavalcade gathers pace. After paying court to Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, Theresa May will fly to Turkey to meet another hard man with a weakness for “alternative facts”: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has engaged in a brutal clampdown on...

Mohammad Salah’s thumping early free kick gave Egypt a 1-0 win against Ghana Wednesday as they sealed their place in the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations. The record seven-time winners of the competition only needed a draw to be certain of going through but the victory allowed them...

They have been waiting for two and half years and the children of Iraq's east Mosul are flocking to enrol in their reopened schools, eager not to waste another day. "It's a great day, today we are giving our children their right to receive an education," said Ghassan Ahmed, queueing with his...