It is August 4th once more, marking five years since the people of Beirut awoke to the usual chaos of one of West Asia’s smallest yet busiest cities—only to have their lives violently and irreversibly shattered. A day of thunderous explosions, blinding smoke, and glass shards slicing through the air ...
Through the smoke rising from Sweida and the embers glowing along Syria’s coastline, the contours of a deeply fractured nation emerge. What’s unfolding in Syria today is not simply the latest chapter in a prolonged civil conflict. It is the manifestation of a more insidious transformation—one that is quietly redrawing ...
