Preventing a terrorist resurgence and ensuring the battered nation’s new government represents all Syrians is in America’s best interests, too.

The United States and other nations have bases in the country, but none as large or significant as Russia’s.

His poster once loomed over almost every corner. Family statues stood over busy streets. Syrian rebel forces said they had entered Damascus on Sunday, dislodging President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has ruled Syria with an iron fist for more than 53 years. The lightning offensive, led by the armed Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, ended […]

Opposition forces marched into Damascus on Dec. 8, seemingly ending the half-century rule of the Assad family. But what happens next?