Three concentric circles of domestic, regional, and global actors compete for power and influence in Syria because of the ...
The Syrian conflict highlights the devastating impact of foreign interventions, proxy wars, and ideological ambitions, ...
From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...
In a region known for protracted conflicts having an army that can sustain prolonged conflict is crucial. The Middle East is ...
A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital. The station was an essential link between Europe and ...
Erdogan could order Islamist militias to deploy along the Israeli border with Syria, creating a highly combustible reality ...
France and other Allied forces that eventually took down the Ottoman Empire. In the following decades, Syria used its section of the railway to transport people between Damascus and its second ...
In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...
Azerbaijan has shown its ambitions extend to sovereign territory in Armenia: the seizure of the so-called Zangezur corridor ...
Assad, the Israeli Occupation army quickly took action, destroying numerous weapons depots in Syria and occupying new ...