Some women and children will return independently, making it harder for authorities to manage the process..
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Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to help protect their neighbors and communities.
Kurds are the casualties of a US Syria strategy that aims to keep America afar, Iran out and Israel and Turkey apart.
After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, minority groups in Syria have been targeted with violence. The US and other regional powers have largely stayed silent.
The attack in Palmyra reveals deep vulnerabilities in Syria’s security architecture, highlighting the challenges of reforming a fragmented state after conflict.
Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where politics have swung sharply right.
A quarter of the 6 million Syrians who fled the country during the decadelong civil war have returned home in the past 12 months.
In 58 Facets, legal anthropologist Marika Sosnowski reflects on displacement, violence, resistance and her own family history.
Ahmed al-Sharaa has become the first Syrian leader in history to be invited to the White House.
Trump’s world order: praising Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as an ‘attractive guy’, while disparaging the first Muslim mayor of New York as a ‘lunatic communist’.
Research into these entrepreneurs may carry lessons for societies and governments around the world.
The home secretary has the power to remove a person’s British citizenship if they consider it ‘conducive to the public good’.
Women have won just six seats so far in the new 210-member parliament. This is not surprising considering how few were permitted to vote or stand as candidates.
The issue of returning Australian citizens connected to Islamic State has become a vexed issue. There are better ways to handle it.
A US-backed diplomatic push is trying to end months of Israeli attacks on Syria with a bilateral security pact. But concluding an agreement may prove a tall order.
The region’s authoritarian leaders have been buoyed by the loss of Iranian power. But such victories mask a region that is still very much beset by danger.
The violence that overwhelmed Sweida in July 2025 reflects challenges under the transitional government, but also age-old tensions over Druze autonomy.
Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious minorities, including the Druze.
Syria’s economy has been battered by war – the coming years will be decisive.
Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure Israel’s role as the dominant regional power.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Director of the Curtin Extremism Research Network (CERN), Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Professor of Islamic Studies, Head of School, The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Director of Dickinson Program in New Zealand & Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, Dickinson College
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst