This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

Some will try to deceive you into believing that the creation of Hamas – and its actions – are somehow the fault of Israeli ...

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

A man carries a giant flag made of flags of Iran ... Yet making it happen seems very hard, given how Iraqi diplomacy, for instance, could not break free from the US-Iranian clash on its soil.

The sudden collapse of the long-standing Assad regime in Syria last December unleashed a wave of trouble for most Syrians, ...

The Ottoman authorities generally accepted this diversity without ... For instance, British and French colonial authorities in the mandate states of Iraq and Syria manipulated sectarian identities to ...

Under Ottoman rule from ... ‘False flag’ operations would be launched, weapons supplied to armed groups (including the Muslim Brotherhood), and a ‘Free Syria Committee’ established. Iraq would lead ...

But from Iraq to Morocco something much more colonial and invasive ... more powerful and effective than the Ottoman basket case. Hassan al-Banna formed the Muslim Brotherhood (1927), a ...

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

German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp — spokesman for the German Bishops’ Conference and a consultant to the Vatican Dicastery for Communication — was in Iraq this past week to ...