Trump est silencieux depuis deux jours. C’est sans précédent. Ces derniers jours, l’Ukraine et ses facilitateurs ont tenté une attaque massive contre la force de bombardement nucléaire stratégique de la Russie ; ont réussi à exploser deux ponts sur des trains civils se dirigeant vers Moscou ; ont attaqué le …

In the uneasy interstice between war and peace, Syria grapples with a question striking at the heart of national sovereignty, social cohesion, and institutional legitimacy: what to do with thousands of foreign jihadist fighters who can neither be expelled nor ignored. The recent move to integrate roughly 3,500 of these …

In a wide-ranging talk, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford traced the astonishing political transformation unfolding in Damascus: from a 14-year civil war and the December 2024 collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the rise of Ahmed al-Sharaa—a former jihadist commander now serving as Syria’s transitional president. Ford began …