But one thing is already certain at this early stage: though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the time being, we can comfortably say that Erdoğanist fantasies about a Turkish ...

and a creeping Islamism will result. There are some early indications of that disconnect. Jolani’s victory speech in Damascus ...

How can the United States take advantage of the great but tricky strategic opportunity that the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny in Damascus offers us? Mainly through a combination of meaningful ...

India has, for its part, followed a calibrated approach of sending out a clear message to Bangladesh to be mindful of India’s ...

The speed of the Assad dictatorship's collapse stunned even the opposition. But the result is a power vacuum that Israel and ...

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Israel too acted swiftly and pre-emptively to create a security zone beyond the Golan Heights and to destroy Syrian arms ...

I coined the phrase “the era of strategic happy talk” to describe the early 1990s, during which time U.S. policymakers bought ...

How can the United States take advantage of the great but tricky strategic opportunity that the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s ...

So, for now, none of us in the West has the right to lecture the Syrian diaspora against celebrating the fall of Assad and his prison network. We lost that right when our governments promised to ...

The fall of the Syrian regime has resulted in the rise of violent jihadist forces, which could impose enduring costs on ...

Bret Stephens was in dialogue with ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, focused on the fact that the war in Gaza has been merely an ...