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 ...

Not to be outdone, also today, Islamist rebels “ made a statement from a mosque in Damascus, in footage aired by Channel 12 ...

The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad ...

The Israeli military said sirens were not sounded to warn of the incoming drone and there were no immediate reports of ...

The “axis of resistance” that Iran has formed with its militant allies in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Syria, Iraq and Yemen would be weakened. Israel and its Arab allies would be ...

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

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

A new revision of the strategic map in the Middle East is on the cards with the downfall of Syria's Bashar Assad in a ...

The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after Assad crushed pro-democracy protests, killing more than half ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Middle East between the British and French, has led to an uneasy rumbling in the ...

The power vacuum left by the collapse of the brutal Assad dictatorship could now be exploited by local warlords and ambitious neighbouring states. Western governments must urgently gain agreement from ...