You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

The U.S., Israel, Russia and Turkey all face major questions as they look to the future of a post-Assad Syria.

‘This’ is the outbreak of violence in Syria that killed 745 civilians in 30 ‘massacres’ along Syria’s Alawite-majority ...

With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918–20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

Syria is no longer Syria but rather an integral part of the emerging Ottoman Empire. A similar case was seen with Iraq, which, since the American withdrawal and until very recently, was ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Syria's Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country's powerhouses. They are now ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, whose great-grandfather served as officer in Ottoman army, adopts name Murat after receiving Turkish ...