If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of ...

Bashar Assad instead became a doctor in the 1980s and was studying in London to be an ophthalmologist in the early 1990s. But ...

Syria is finally free of Mr Assad’s brutality. A rebel offensive that began in the north-west on November 27th progressed ...

The transport route around the southern tip of Africa was once little used — but freighters are now forced to take it and are ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and ...

A new global risk map has revealed the world's most dangerous, war-torn cities where travelers will be in jeopardy should ...

Despite escalating tensions in the region and continued fighting in Yemen, a political solution for peace in the country is still possible but ...

In Monday evening’s conversation, she explained the social situation on the ground in Israel since the October 2023  Hamas ...

When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant ...

There are reports the Turkish-backed rebels are now advancing on Kobani, an important Kurdish-majority town on Turkey’s ...

The rebel groups and foreign powers contending to shape the country’s future.

Assad has created challenges and opportunities for the United States in Syria. But the dissonance between the current and ...