Syrian civil war

protest in Syria

The future of Syria and the Middle East is complex and uncertain, argues Khaled Ghannam.

Damaged buildings in Aleppo and funeral in Kobane

Brazilian socialist Israel Dutra interviews Swiss-Syrian activist and academic Joseph Daher about the situation in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Map of northern Syria

Sarah Glynn reviews the week’s extraordinary events in Syria and examines the evolution and nature of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, whose forces have charged through the hollowed-out shell of Bashar al Assad’s regime and potentially beyond the control of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

map of northern Syria

The fall of Aleppo and the withdrawal of the Syrian army and Russian troops without a fight cleared the way for Turkish-backed militias, writes Zeki Bedran.

A new report documents the ongoing human, social, economic and environmental toll of the Iraq war, reports Brett Wilkins.

The involvement of external powers in Syria's civil war has led to sheer devastation, writes Yanis Iqbal. Fantasies of "regime change" have fuelled sectarian war and revived jihadi groups.