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| The Momentous Turkish vs. Israeli Battle over Syria | MEF Observer | July 22, 2025 | |
| "Are you Alawite?": A Call to Prevent Genocide in Syria | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2025 | |
| "Do Not Leave Any Alive": Sunnis vs. Alawites in Syria | Australian | March 22, 2025 | |
| Facilitate America's Enemies Killing Each Other in Syria | MEF Observer | December 7, 2024 | |
| The Most Embarrassingly Wrong Book Ever on the Middle East?: David Lesch on Bashar al-Assad |
Washington Times | August 9, 2017 | |
| ISIS is Collapsing |
Miami Herald | April 19, 2016 | |
| What Syrian Chemical Weapons Reveal about Obama |
FoxNews.com | May 19, 2015 | |
| Syria's Civil War Could Stabilize Its Region |
The Washington Times | February 26, 2015 | |
| There's No Difference between ISIS and ISIL |
National Review Online | September 12, 2014 | |
| Turkish Support for ISIS |
The Washington Times | June 18, 2014 | |
| Let Refugees Remain in Their Own Culture Zones |
The Washington Times | September 24, 2013 | |
| Scoring the Syria Deal: Putin, Assad, and Iran gain; Obama, Turkey, and Israel lose ground. |
National Review Online | September 17, 2013 | |
| Forget Syria, Target Iran |
The Washington Times | September 9, 2013 | |
| When Sunni and Shiite Extremists Make War: A response to Bret Stephens |
National Review Online | June 5, 2013 | |
| Support Assad |
The Washington Times | April 11, 2013 | |
| Ankara at War |
National Review Online | October 16, 2012 | |
| Wait Out the War in Syria |
The Washington Times | August 21, 2012 | |
| Stay out of the Syrian Morass |
The Washington Times | June 13, 2012 | |
| Fin de Régime in Syria? |
National Review Online | May 24, 2011 | |
| Hold Damascus Responsible [for Hezbollah Violence in Southern Lebanon] |
New York Sun | August 1, 2006 | |
| Lebanon's Liberation Approaches |
New York Sun | February 22, 2005 | |
| [Dennis Ross on] Strange Twists in Syrian-Israeli Diplomacy |
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 6, 2004 | |
| The Secret Pictures of Senior Airman Ahmad al Halabi |
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 29, 2004 | |
| Signal to Syria: Straighten Up |
New York Post | May 13, 2003 | |
| Will the Assad Dynasty Last? | Jerusalem Post | June 6, 2001 | |
| "We Don't Need Syria" in Lebanon |
Middle East Quarterly | September 2000 | |
| Getting Syria wrong | Jerusalem Post | June 21, 2000 | |
| Syria's 'Lion' Was Really a 'Monster' | Wall Street Journal | June 12, 2000 | |
| Syria after the Iron Fist | National Post | June 12, 2000 | |
| [Assad's Death Offers] A Chance for Peace | Washington Post | June 11, 2000 | |
| A lesson courtesy of the Turks |
Jerusalem Post | April 12, 2000 | |
| True Syrian intentions |
Jerusalem Post | March 17, 2000 | |
| Is a Syria-Israel Treaty Good for the United States? | Middle East Forum Wire | January 28, 2000 | |
| Tax dollars to Syria? | Washington Times | January 26, 2000 | |
| A Copernican View [of Syria] | Jerusalem Post | January 25, 2000 | |
| No Time to Cajole [Syria] | Jerusalem Post | December 21, 1999 | |
| Skepticism on Syria-Israel Talks | Christian Science Monitor | December 16, 1999 | |
| Asad's Art of the Double Game |
Modern Syria: From Ottoman Rule to Pivotal Role in the Middle East | 1999 | |
| The Word of Hafez al-Assad | Commentary | October 1999 | |
| Assad Isn't Interested |
Jerusalem Post | August 29, 1999 | |
| The Road to Damascus: What Netanyahu Almost Gave Away [to Asad in 1998] |
New Republic | July 5, 1999 | |
| [Turkey-Israel and] The Real "New Middle East" |
Commentary | November 1998 | |
| Syria and Turkey Gird for War | Wall Street Journal | October 9, 1998 | |
| Syria's Battle on All Fronts | New York Times | April 23, 1996 | |
| Beyond the Golan: Prospects for Syrian-Turkish Confrontation | Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy | January 31, 1996 | |
| Just Kidding: Syria's Peace Bluff | New Republic | January 8 & 15, 1996 | |
| 25 Years of Assad's Syria: Ready for Peace?" | The Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy | October 23, 1995 | |
| "Hafiz al-Asad Should Be Careful" |
Turkish Times | December 15, 1994 | |
| Understanding Hafiz al-Asad | Middle East Quarterly | December 1994 | |
| Syria's people may not want peace | Jewish Exponent | November 25, 1994 | |
| U.S. Troops in the Golan Heights? | Washington Times | November 15, 1994 | |
| Clinton in Syria: He sends Assad the wrong signal | Boston Globe | October 30, 1994 | |
| Press Hafez al-Assad To Go the American Route |
Wall Street Journal | October 27, 1994 | |
| The Mind of Hafez Assad: After a career built on rejectionism, he's still playing a double game | Washington Post | October 9, 1994 | |
| Assad: As Good as His Word? | Jerusalem Post | September 3, 1994 | |
| The Broken Promises of Syria's Hafez Assad | Washington Times | April 29, 1994 | |
| Deportation Prospects to Lebanon and Syria: Prepared for the case, Government of Canada vs. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad | DanielPipes.org | March 1994 | |
| Trust Assad? Not Yet | New York Times | January 18, 1994 | |
| Assad Opposes the Oslo Accords | Forward | December 24, 1993 | |
| Do I Approve of Syria's Annexing Lebanon?: Letter to the Editor | Delaware County Daily Times | August 6, 1993 | |
| Syria: A Partner for Peace?: Has Assad had a change of heart or merely a chance of tactics? | Washington Jewish Weekly | October 20, 1991 | |
| Syria is the Key | ABC (Madrid) | September 30, 1991 | |
| Is Damascus Ready for Peace? | Foreign Affairs | Fall 1991 | |
| Syria: America's New Ally? | Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy | August 1991 | |
| Why Syria's Offer Is Serious | Wall Street Journal | July 26, 1991 | |
| Greater Syria: Another Lion Roars in the Middle East | Washington Post | October 21, 1990 | |
| Syria is the Key to Mideast peace | Philadelphia Inquirer | May 1, 1990 | |
| The Quiet Crisis: Turkish-Syrian Relations | Prepared for the Central Intelligence Agency | November 1989 | |
| Terrorism: The Syrian Connection |
National Interest | Spring 1989 | |
| Why Asad's Terror Works and Qadhdhafi's Does Not |
Orbis | 1989 | |
| The Alawi Capture of Power in Syria |
Middle Eastern Studies | 1989 | |
| Syria: The Next Generation | Prepared for the Orkand Corporation | 1989 | |
| Radical Politics and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party |
International Journal of Middle East Studies | August 1988 | |
| Syria After Assad |
World and I | February 1987 | |
| Damascus and the Claim to Lebanon |
Orbis | Winter 1987 | |
| Palestine for the Syrians? |
Commentary | December 1986 | |
| Assad's Cunning Game |
Washington Post | November 4, 1986 | |
| Isolate Syria | New York Times | October 29, 1986 | |
| Syria: The Cuba of the Middle East? |
Commentary | July 1986 | |
| Syria's Imperial Dream: Foreign adventures shore up Assad's regime | New Republic | June 9, 1986 | |
| But Don't Forget Syria | National Interest | Fall 1985 | |
| It's Syria That Counts in the Middle East | Wall Street Journal | August 13, 1985 | |
Blog Posts |
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| Updates on the Persecution of Alawites | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 4, 2025 | |
| No to Bombing Syria |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | April 6, 2017 | |
| More on Turkish Support for ISIS |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 18, 2014 | |
| Syria's Looming Water Calamity |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 1, 2014 | |
| Yes, Support the Syrian Rebels |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | December 19, 2013 | |
| Further on Syrian Refugees: Fleeing to the West or to Saudi? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | October 2, 2013 | |
| Arguing against "Limited" Strikes on the Assad Regime |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | August 28, 2013 | |
| Hizbullah's Travails in a Graphic |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | May 27, 2013 | |
| Support the Syrian Rebels? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | May 11, 2013 | |
| "U.S. Fears Syria Rebel Victory, for Now" |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | April 17, 2013 | |
| Responses to the "Support Assad" Argument |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | April 13, 2013 | |
| 50 Years of Syrian Misery |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | March 8, 2013 | |
| Bibliography – My Writings on Secret Syrian-Israeli Diplomacy | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | October 14, 2012 | |
| Netanyahu Again Offers the Golan Heights to Syria? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | October 14, 2012 | |
| Thoughts on the Syrian Downing of a Turkish Warplane |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 23, 2012 | |
| Further Thoughts on Not Intervening in Syria |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 13, 2012 | |
| Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | February 25, 2012 | |
| Turkish-Syrian Tensions Flare Anew |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 19, 2011 | |
| More on Regime Change in Syria | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | May 24, 2011 | |
| A Turning Point in the Arab-Israeli Conflict? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | May 15, 2011 | |
| "Syria After Asad": Sunnis vs. Alawis |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | March 30, 2011 | |
| Hafiz al-Asad and Me |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 10, 2010 | |
| Why Do Israelis Permit Hezbollah to Acquire Scuds? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | April 28, 2010 | |
| Quneitra, Why in Ruins? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 27, 2009 | |
| Damascus Recognizes Lebanon as a Separate Country? | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | July 22, 2008 | |
| Israel and Syria going to war? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | June 7, 2007 | |
| Should Israel initiate talks with Syria? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | September 26, 2006 | |
| Bibliography – My Writings on Greater Syria | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | July 19, 2006 | |
| "Greater Syria" in the News |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | July 19, 2006 | |
| Hamas Trains Terrorists in Syria | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | March 29, 2005 | |
| Is the Hatay/Alexandretta Problem Solved? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | January 10, 2005 | |
| Nezar Hindawi's Attempt to Blow up an El Al Airplane |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | October 13, 2004 | |
| A New Netanyahu vis-à-vis Syria? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | January 8, 2004 | |
| What Was Binyamin Netanyahu Ready to Concede on the Golan Heights? |
Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | April 13, 2001 | |
| Assad Won't Cut Israel a Break in Lebanon | Lion's Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog | April 8, 2000 | |
Reviews |
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| It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World by Rime Allaf |
Middle East Quarterly | October 22, 2025 | |
| Muslim-Christian Relations in Damascus amid the 1860 Riot by Rana Abu-Mounes |
Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2022 | |
| The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria: A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party by Carl C. Yonker |
Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2021 | |
| Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process by Marius Deeb |
Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 | |
| Syria & Lebanon Handbook by Ivan Mannheim |
Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2002 | |
| Asad's Legacy: Syria in Transition by Eyal Zisser |
Middle East Quarterly | June 2001 | |
| Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria by Lisa Wedeen |
Middle East Quarterly | June 2001 | |
| Syrische Religionspolitik unter Asad by Annabelle Böttcher |
Middle East Quarterly | September 2000 | |
| The Schools of Ba'athism: A Study of Syrian Textbooks by Meyrav Wurmser |
Middle East Quarterly | March 2000 | |
| The Israeli-Syrian Dialogue: A One-Way Ticket to Peace? by Uri Sagie |
Middle East Quarterly | March 2000 | |
| Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Ba`thist Syria by Onn Winckler |
Middle East Quarterly | March 2000 | |
| Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics by Hanna Batatu |
Middle East Quarterly | December 1999 | |
| The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations by Itamar Rabinovich |
Weekly Standard | November 16, 1998 | |
| The Damascus Affair: "Ritual Murder," Politics, and the Jews in 1840 by Jonathan Frankel |
Middle East Quarterly | September 1998 | |
| Historical Dictionary of Syria by David Commins |
Middle East Quarterly | December 1996 | |
| Secret War in the Middle East: The Covert Struggle for Syria, 1949-1961 by Andrew Rathmell |
Middle East Quarterly | September 1996 | |
| Basil fi 'Uyun al-Misriyin (Basil in Egyptian eyes) by 'Izzat as-Sa'dani |
Middle East Quarterly | September 1996 | |
| Syria and Israel: From War to Peace-making by Moshe Ma'oz |
Middle East Quarterly | June 1996 | |
| The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq by Eliezer Tauber |
Middle East Quarterly | June 1996 | |
| Peace With Security: Israel's Minimal Security Requirements in Negotiations with Syria by Ze'ev Schiff |
Orbis | Winter 1994 | |
| Syria and the Middle East Peace Process by Alasdair Drysdale and Raymond A. Hinnebusch |
Orbis | Spring 1992 | |
| Syria Unmasked: The Suppression of Human Rights by the Asad Regime by Middle East Watch |
Orbis | Fall 1991 | |
| Authoritarian Power and State Formation in Ba'thist Syria: Army, Party, and Peasant by Raymond A. Hinnebusch |
Orbis | Fall 1990 | |
| Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East by Charles Glass |
Washington Times | April 24, 1990 | |
| Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Seale |
Orbis | Fall 1989 | |
| The Soviet Union and Syria: The Asad Years by Efraim Karsh |
Orbis | Summer 1989 | |
| Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945 by Philip S. Khoury |
Orbis | Summer 1987 | |
| The Ba'th and the Creation of Modern Syria by David Roberts |
Orbis | Summer 1987 | |
| Syria Under Assad: Domestic Constraints and Regional Risks | Orbis | Winter 1987 | |
| Syrian Intervention in Lebanon: The 1975-76 Civil War by Naomi Joy Weinberger |
Orbis | Winter 1987 | |
Spoken |
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| What Next for Syria? | World Geostratregic Insights (Italy) | May 19, 2025 | |
| A Conversation with Ribal al-Assad | MEF Podcast | December 20, 2024 | |
| The Perfect Storm that Allowed an Islamist Victory in Syria | NTD Television | December 10, 2024 | |
| Why I Am Pessimistic about Syria: The Heart Celebrates, the Brain Worries | Michael Medved Show | December 10, 2024 | |
| Bashar al-Assad Rejoins the Arab League: An Assessment | TVP (Poland) | May 9, 2023 | |
| Islamism and Syria Update |
Arutz Sheva | July 9, 2020 | |
| Understanding the U.S.-Turkish-Syrian Triangle: An Interview |
Informale | October 21, 2019 | |
| Latest on the Syria Crisis | 630 KHOW Denver | October 17, 2019 | |
| Erdoğan Invaded; What's Next in Syria? |
DanielPipes.org | October 15, 2019 | |
| The American Withdrawal from Syria: An Interview |
Caratteri Liberi (Italy) | December 31, 2018 | |
| Syria, Security, Migration, and Eurabia: An Interview |
Alpha Institute | December 7, 2017 | |
| Pipes vs. Roman on Syria |
i24 | April 7, 2017 | |
| Al-Nusra's rebranding may increase its powers within jihadi networks in Syria | Radio Sputnik | July 30, 2016 | |
| The Death of a Syrian War Lord |
CTV News | December 26, 2015 | |
| Debate over the civil war in Syria |
PressTV | December 10, 2015 | |
| Dubious U.S. Mission in Syria |
PressTV, The Debate | September 27, 2014 | |
| Jihadist Recruitment of Western Women Will Grow |
CNN: Newsroom | August 7, 2014 | |
| The New Caliphate and Other Topics | DanielPipes.org | July 23, 2014 | |
| U.S. Strategy in Syria |
The Blaze | September 26, 2013 | |
| Can the Russian Diplomatic Initiative Prevent a U.S. Attack on Syria? |
The Voice of Russia Radio | September 10, 2013 | |
| Should the West Act in Syria? |
Australian Broadcast Corp | August 30, 2013 | |
| The Contrarians Discuss Syria |
Sky News (Australia) | August 30, 2013 | |
| Dissecting Western Policy toward Syria |
Alan Jones, 2GB Radio, Sydney | August 29, 2013 | |
| Developments in Syria and Turkey |
Secure Freedom Radio | June 6, 2013 | |
| Islam and Syria |
Sun News Network, The Source with Ezra Levant | May 22, 2013 | |
| Chaos and killing in Syria |
Sun News Network, The Arena with Michael Coren | May 15, 2013 | |
| Arabs condemn attacks on Syria |
Sun News Network, The Arena with Michael Coren | May 6, 2013 | |
| US Confirms Chemical Weapons Used in Syria |
Sun News Network | April 26, 2013 | |
| Should the West Be Supporting Syria's Assad? |
Sun News Network | April 15, 2013 | |
| Discussing Culpability in Syria on Iranian Television |
PressTV | April 7, 2013 | |
| The Latest in Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Egypt - All in 20 Minutes |
NewsMax | April 3, 2013 | |
| What To Do in Syria |
The Blaze | March 25, 2013 | |
| Thinking about Policy toward Islamism and Syria | Radio 2GB, Sydney | August 22, 2012 | |
| Syria: Commentator cautions support for rebels |
SBS World News (Australia) | August 13, 2012 | |
| Choices in Syria | Rhema Radio, New Zealand | June 13, 2012 | |
| Syria and Iran in the news |
Ezra Levant, The Source | February 6, 2012 | |
| Middle East mayhem: What's in store for Turkey, Libya, and Syria? |
Michael Coren, Arena | October 25, 2011 | |
| Involve Syria and Iran in the Lebanon War? |
CNN: Lou Dobbs Tonight | August 10, 2006 | |
| Who's Behind Hezbollah?: The Role of Syria and Iran |
Heritage Foundation | July 26, 2006 | |
| Syrian Leadership and the War on Terrorism | Johns Hopkins University | September 29, 2003 | |
| Syria 101 |
MSNBC | April 15, 2003 | |
| Taking a Tougher Approach to Syria | CBN 700 Club | April 9, 2003 | |
| Why Hafez al-Assad Does Not Want a Treaty with Israel | Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy | May 19, 2000 | |
| Syria-Lebanon-Israel Triangle: The End Of The Status Quo? | Washington Institute Soref Symposium | May 19, 2000 | |
| Clinton-Assad Meeting Fails | CNN | March 26, 2000 | |
| Syria: America's New Ally? | The Washington Institute, Policy Forum Report | May 21, 1991 | |
| The U.S. Response to Terrorism | CBS Nightwatch | May 28, 1986 | |
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