In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ...

Circumstances of history beyond the scope of this column have suppressed Syrian patriotism and placed the term between scare marks. The Baath’s notorious lexicon rendered Syria, “the beating heart of ...

TYRANT Assad’s desperate final plea to Putin and his nerve-racking wait to be smuggled into Russia have been revealed. The ...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Italian ambassador over the arrest of Mohammad Abedini, who is wanted by the ...

Jolani, might be one of the most popular people on the planet right now. Nearly a month after his militant group Hayat Tahrir ...

So is Syria’s largest commercial bank. The Syrian pound has lost 99% of its value since the start of the civil war in 2011.

During President Hafez al-Assad’s long reign from 1971 to 2000, Syria was essentially a client state of the Soviet Union and ...

Russia has long offered asylum to disgraced leaders and defectors. This policy serves as a strategic tool for Moscow, ...

Russia and the former Soviet Union were long the leading suppliers of military hardware to Syria under the rule of recently ...