Explore the largest empires in history which not only changed the political and cultural landscape of their eras but also ...

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20th century Modern Greece was defined by turbulence: a nation caught between a dying Ottoman Empire, skirmishes with ...

The gory stories of decapitation, torture and rape of all those refusing to obey the Salafi version of Jihadis, are still ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Recent days have seen sectarian tensions in Syria between the majority Sunni community and ...

Governance Amid Syria's Fragmentation Muhammad al-Bashir-not former Syrian Prime Minister in exile Riad Hijab or current ...

To most people who read or otherwise consume western media, the fall of the Assad government in Syria was unusually quick and even surprising. For most of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awarded the Wisam Mubarak al-Kabeer, or the Order of Mubarak the Great, by Sheikh Meshal ...

The continent has become a key battleground for Beijing and Ankara, competing over security deals, arms sales, resource extraction, and infrastructure projects. This analysis examines the growing ...

Iran has been relentlessly pushing its agenda to dominate the region, particularly in the Fertile Crescent, stretching fro ...