Opinion


Syria's future: Can Ahmed al-Sharaa reconcile democracy, Islam, and minority rights? - opinion

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech on the first anniversary of Bashar al-Assad's fall, in Damascus, Syria December 8, 2025.

The fall of Rojava was not a conspiracy, it was a failure of strategy - opinion

Members of the Kurdish community and other protesters attend a demonstration against recent military clashes between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2026.

The world order was always an illusion, and it is now collapsing - opinion

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit in The Hague in June. More and more signs indicate that the old order is weakening, says the writer.