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

Israeli forces have reportedly advanced deep into southern Syria, reaching approximately ... by foreign nations including Turkey and the United States. On Sunday Netanyahu said Assad's fall ...

Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved ... Turkey, Western powers and several Gulf Arab states have backed varying elements of the Syrian opposition to varying degrees during ...

"Syria is a mess, but is not our friend. THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO ... to place Turkey back at the center of the world map, reviving the country’s Ottoman Empire past.

Israeli forces have also reportedly expanded their ground presence in Syria’s southwest, including in the United Nations-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights. The UK-based Syrian ...

As the map demonstrates, Iraqi Kurdistan now controls the border crossings linking the Kurdish regions of the two countries. The Kurds in Syria and Iraq are also both considering an increasingly ...