Hafez al-Assad

As the thin man strode into the café, the newspaper reader sitting next to the window glanced up, then down at the small photograph on the table…

DAMASCUS, Syria — The young roulette dealer, dressed in electric green, gives the wheel a spin as a crowd of men clutch their whiskey glasses, hoping…

The US has secretly communicated with Syrian officials in recent weeks in hopes of brokering a comprehensive peace agreement between Syria and…

In the final days of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Jonathan Spyer and his Armored Corps reserve unit were sent to capture ground north of el-Khiam, a…

THAT GROWING SPECULATION SURROUNDING the future of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak should fall on the 40th anniversary of the death of the country’s…

Two buses are parked next to each other close to the Umayyad Mosque compound in the center of Old Damascus. A group of female Iranian tourists clad…

BEIRUT — In a new Syrian soap opera, a beautiful green-eyed young woman named Layla is torn over whether to take off the niqab, the billowing black…

In light of Ankara’s recent criticism of what it calls Israel’s “open-air jail” in Gaza, this week, which marks the anniversary of Turkey’s invasion…

Fidel Castro warned of the threat of global nuclear war involving the US, Israel, and Iran Friday, in his fifth public appearance this week following…

An international human rights group said Friday that Syria's president has done "virtually nothing" to improve human rights and expand freedoms…

On March 21, 2010, the Syrian security forces opened fire with live ammunition on a crowd of 5,000 in the northern Syrian town of al-Raqqah. The…

This article was published in the May 24 edition of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to the Jerusalem Report, click here. On April 14 the Israeli…

DAMASCUS, Syria — After a lecture on the role of private banks, Syrian economist Mohammed Ayman al-Maydani was asked to elaborate on a passing remark…

War seems to be looming on the eve of next week’s 62nd Independence Day celebrations. This is not a war that will erupt immediately – Military…

What General David Petraeus said in his testimony before the Senate’s Armed Services Committee on March 16, and the manner in which his statement was…

When it came to protecting the right of the Libyan Ambassador to the UN living immediately next door to me in Englewood, my Democratic Congressman,…

While the Obama administration is fiddling over the construction of apartments in Jerusalem, the Middle East is burning. Yet these other issues don’t…

While Syria steadily makes strides toward breaking free from international isolation, and while its leaders purport to espouse the spirit of peaceful…

In Damascus last week, the full array of leaders of the so-called “resistance bloc” sat down to a sumptuous meal together. Presidents Ahmedinejad of…

In Damascus last week, the full array of leaders of the so-called “resistance bloc” sat down to a sumptuous meal together. Presidents Ahmedinejad of…