Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Unconcerned with casualties, Netanyahu’s talk of “changing the face of the Middle East” has found ready echoes across much of the Israeli media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

The government of Bashar al-Assad has received aid from several nations both within and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran. Russia in particular has been a strong military force ...

While the main opposition forces have seized Damascus, the rest of Syria is under the control of numerous other factions.

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country divided and scarred. And for most of that time, the fighting showed little sign of stopping. Then, within a ...