Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

"It is tempting to see this moment as a crisis—perhaps even an unraveling. But history tells a different story." ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Iraq has retrieved several stolen archaeological pieces from Japan and Switzerland through intensive ...

Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic ...

The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

The European Union is currently discussing a deal to partially suspend several sanctions on Syria’s energy industry, including scrapping bans on importing crude from the country. Last month ...

The Syrian whistleblower known as Caesar, who documented countless cases of human rights abuses during the time of the Bashar al-Assad government, revealed himself as First Lieutenant Farid al ...