THERE WAS joy and horror and anguish all at once. Many of the detainees freed from Saidnaya, the most notorious prison in Syria, were husks: skeletal frames, vacant stares. They staggered out of ...
After 14 years of conflict, recent developments in Syria have raised hopes that the world’s largest forced displacement crisis may finally be resolved, but the future remains uncertain.
As of this writing, the group’s leader, Naim Qassem, has yet to even address events ... its current victory—like Ajnad al-Kavkaz and the Turkestan Islamic Party—have goals outside Syria ...