No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Most Kurds – some 25 million – ...

Israel must set conditions for an eventual withdrawal from its buffer zone in Syria, and if it stays longer than six months, ...

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

Turkey has experienced several deadly earthquakes in recent years. A video shared on Facebook claims that a 7.9 magnitude ...

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

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

AMMAN, JORDAN - Jordan, which faces new regional challenges in dealing with Syria’s transitional Islamist regime, is pursuing ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Countries that malign migrants are in quite serious need of new people. Nations in the wealthy world face a top-heavy future- ...