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 ...

Since toppling president Bashar al-Assad, Syria's Islamist-led rulers are to set up an inclusive committee to set up a "national dialogue conference". FRANCE 24's Genie Godula welcomes Dr. Aaron Y.

Shibani's trip to Doha comes after he hosted the French and German Foreign Ministers in Damascus on Friday. View on euronews ...

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians, nearly all of them women or children.

Institut français du Proche-Orient A 1935 French Mandate map of Syria and Lebanon The ... the Americans to help fight the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria. Why is Turkey attacking Syria?

They carved up the Middle East map with the ... rule. Syria, today’s shiny coin for international attention, is another mock nation imagined by the Brits and French. For the last 44 years ...

Senior officials from France, Germany, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States ... many of the same mistakes in Syria that it did in Afghanistan after 2021. Western capitals have not been ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is a typical specimen from that sorry pack. Mr. Macron was among the first Western politicians to weigh in on Syria, already on 8 December: “The barbaric state ...

Moscow (AFP) – A "terrorist act" sank the cargo ship that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian state ... Syria where Moscow has a naval base at Tartus. A ...

Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic have been named as among the most dangerous countries to visit ...

France plans to hold a conference on Syria in Paris on Feb. 13, the French presidency said in a statement on Thursday.