The Umayyads hastily built desert ... Asia) and the South Pacific. They redoubled their efforts in the 1870s after the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, and the French Empire reached a peak between the ...

<p class="para editable block" id="berglee_1.0-ch08_s00_p01">The realm of North Africa and Southwest Asia is large and expansive in terms of physical area, but its ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

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

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

BEIRUT - Syria's Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Wednesday the group had not received any plans from the U.S. forces in northern and eastern Syria to withdraw. "Of course, ISIS and ...

By Erika Solomon Ben Hubbard and Lara Jakes President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria The newly appointed president of Syria, Ahmed al-Shara, pledged in a speech on Thursday to create an inclusive transitional government that ...

DUBAI — 14 women and one man were killed and 15 other women injured on Monday (Feb 3), in a car bomb explosion on a main road on the outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, Syria's ...