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 ...

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 ...

But while many in the country are celebrating the downfall of a family dynasty that ruled Syria with an iron fist ... Western powers and several Gulf Arab states have backed varying elements ...