In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

That’s why Norman Hubbard, a campus minister and author, thinks it’s worth Christians’ time to re-examine the words with ...

"The Kurds did not acquire drones from Iran - this is all clear Turkish propaganda,” a Kurdish military official stated to ...

Their traditional homeland spans parts of modern-day Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The conflicts in this region have simmered for more than a century, since the restructuring of the Middle East ...

For years, Syria's battle lines had been frozen under a fragile ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey in 2020 ... we must look beyond the modern era, all the way back to the 11th century.

But when Mr Sharaa met Mr Pedersen a day later ... controls much of north-east Syria. Turkey considers it a terrorist group because of its ties to Kurdish rebels. Map: The Economist This would ...

“We still receive requests from people every day to find their relatives ... His story is the story of all of Syria: from abused child detainee to refugee in Turkey, he went on to fight with ...

In historical terms, the Maccabean Revolt was the beginning of the end of the Seleucid Empire. Moral: Don't mess with the ...

The rebel sweep ended a war that killed hundreds of thousands, caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern ... Cairo and Turkey, covering everything from the Arab Spring and Syria's civil ...

Here’s a look at that history, with maps as a guide ... spanning not only today’s Syria but also the modern-day states of Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel. The Ottomans dominated ...

Whether a President is serious, particularly one like [President-elect] Donald Trump, he says a lot of things he doesn’t follow up on. He also [...] More ...