Syria

Jerusalem Center: Islamic Issues in the Middle East Today - Interview with Dr. Harold Rhode

Dr. Harold Rhode studied in Iran at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad in 1978 during the early and middle stages of the Islamic Revolution....

JNS: Did the US strike Syria hard enough?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to attack key chemical-weapons facilities in Syria raises critical questions, including whether...

Jerusalem Center: An Existential Battle for the Demographic Future of Syria

The Syrian government, Russia, and Iran (SRI) are trying to change the demographic makeup of Syria. They aim to depopulate Syria of the...

Gatestone Institute: Honor and Compromise in Middle East Leadership

Why couldn't Egypt's deposed President Morsi admit mistakes? Why couldn't he "compromise" with the military and stay in power? And what...

Jewish Policy Center: The Sunni Divide

Watching the Syrians kill each other, one can get the impression from the media that there are two sides—the Assad regime and “the...

Jerusalem Post: Kurds, Jews and a new Mideast

By Harold Rhode and Dan Diker Syria’s fragmentation along religious and ethnic lines exposes the apparent rupture of what has been known...

Gatestone Institute: The Alawites and the Future of Syria

The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form...

Gatestone Institute: Will Syria Remain a Unified State?

While the news is filled daily with terrible atrocities which the Syrian regime is carrying out, these reports mask another development:...

Gatestone Institute: The Concept of Brotherhood in Islam

With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...

Jerusalem Center: Will Turkey or Iran Win the Hearts and Minds of the Arab Street?

The Sunni-Shiite Divide Iranian Shiites and Turkish Sunnis are engaged today in a huge battle to capture the hearts and minds of the Arab...

Jerusalem Center: The Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior

Executive Summary This analysis identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian people since ancient times. Most...

Jerusalem Center: Between Atatürk’s Secularism and Fundamentalist Islam

From the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk founded a modern democratic state by forging the entirely unprecedented notion in the...