Shortly after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) drove Bashar al-Assad out of Syria last year, the group pledged to respect the rights of minorities. Yet, since HTS took control over much of the country, some across the international community have raised fears that Syria’s new leaders—with their jihadist backgrounds—might erode minority …

Next month, Lebanon will mark the 25th anniversary of Israel’s troop withdrawal from its southern region after a two-decade-long occupation and eighteen year resistance campaign by Lebanon’s Hezbollah organization. But this year, the commemoration will be marred by the fact that Israeli forces are back on Lebanese soil, effectively maintaining …

Since the opposition ousting of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Western powers have cautiously embraced Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa as the country’s new legitimate leader. The new Syrian government, consisting of technocrats and high-profile former dissidents of the Assad regime, is actively reaching out to international actors in a quest to …