The fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened a window for wealthy Gulf countries to expand their influence as ...

About seven months ago, a group of 25 Syrian youths, including minors, set off from Libya on an irregular migration journey ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, ...

By Conor Lennon When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and ...

In 1996 a policy document called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, prepared by a study group led by American neoconservative Richard Perle, was presented to current Israeli Prime ...

To those who know the Middle East, such thoughts make little sense. They are hogwash.

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Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began, did not wait or depend on external forces to engineer a change. It was implemented by ...

Whether the biggest foreign-policy gamble of Mr Trump’s presidency has paid off will remain unclear. If Mr Trump has really ...

For decades, the specter of a Third World War loomed large in my mind, fueled by youthful readings of Nostradamus’s ...

Countries that aligned themselves with the US have used oil as a jump-start to global economic status. But those who resisted have seen destruction ...