New Delhi: The modern-day Syria with its capital in Damascus is considered as an Arab Islamic country where the majority of population comprises Sunni Muslims, about 74 per cent followed by Shia ...

The tragedy of the modern Middle East is that the Ottoman Empire, while it lasted, solved a problem that would bedevil the ...

With the Middle East in turmoil, could Israel now step into the breach?

Appearing to allude to Turkey's Ottoman past, which included control over modern day Syria, Trump added: "They've wanted it for thousands of years, and he got it, and those people that went in are ...

A man burns a picture of Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting al-Assad and ending more than half a century ...

Syria's Islamist rebel leader on Monday began discussions on transferring power, a day after his opposition ... caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times and left cities bombed ...

I will conclude with a few words about the day after in Syria. If so, he will avoid provoking the Israelis, protect Syria’s minorities and remember the terrible crimes that the rulers of Iran ...

Syrian citizens celebrate during the second ... still live in camps after one of the biggest displacements of the modern day. Many refugees won't have physical homes left in Syria.

archived recording 3 Islamist forces are on their fourth day of a lightning offensive through several towns and villages towards Syria’s fourth-largest city, Hama. This is when suddenly it ...