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 ...

The same day ... suggesting that Syria could be broken up into a series of cantons, with each free to cooperate with external actors, including Israel. “The modern nation-state in the Middle ...

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 ...

Sitting atop a high ridge in what is now the Homs province of modern-day Syria, the UNESCO-listed fortress was built by a medieval Catholic military order, the Knights of St John, who held it from ...

Hundreds of Syrian protesters gathered Thursday at Umayyad Square in Damascus for the first time since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government and the country’s sudden takeover by jihadi-led rebels.

Suweida had a quasi-autonomous status under Assad, and the Druze want that to continue. It is just one example of the ...