Syria

Women’s representation is critical to lasting peace, but they are losing ground at the negotiating table.

The conflict’s impact on the world’s ability to prevent atrocities will be felt for years to come.

Armed checkpoints along key trade routes—not natural resources—are the key to financing rebel groups and insurgencies around the world.

Russia’s blockage of aid deliveries threatens to make Syria’s humanitarian disaster the worst it’s been since the war began.

Only Washington has the carrots and sticks to steer the conflict towards resolution.

Companies linked to the Wagner group are snapping up oil and gas leases—with an eye to pumping influence, not oil.

Governments tend to fund large humanitarian agencies, but small groups run by refugees are a better investment.

The shifting nature of war has made peacemaking more difficult. A new kind of back-channel diplomacy can help.

Doing so would be a death sentence for global nonproliferation efforts.

Syrian government is using aid deliveries as a weapon, State Department reports.

Moscow and Damascus have evaded all accountability, but Biden can build a coalition to change that.

A survivor of regime atrocities explains why the international community must act.

The Caesar Act isn’t hurting Assad; it’s harming civilians.

Why is the United States still struggling to figure out what to do about the Assad regime?

There’s no peace in Syria, only suffering.

As the war drags on, there are small glimmers of hope for those seeking reconciliation.

“We Are Bellingcat” charts the rise of the digital sleuths who have used open-source investigations to foil Russia’s intelligence agencies.

Democrats in Congress signaled they were uneasy with the move and are demanding answers from the White House.