IT was a preliminary statement, but it couldn’t have been clearer.

Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition ...

The Associated Press obtained audio of what military officials say is a broadcast from a Russian spy ship that suffered a ...

Imperialist and regional powers are helping the new regime gain international legitimacy by giving the impression that it has ...

The remarks come after the European Union made the decision to begin easing sanctions on Syria following the toppling of ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian home town after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...