Days after five decades of totalitarian rule by the Assad family dynasty ended, I went to Damascus, Syria. Two decades ...

Many members of the party's leadership have gone into hiding and some have fled the country. In a symbolic move, Syria's new ...

Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam, hold unique beliefs like the divine nature of Ali ibn Abi Talib ... Despite fears of sectarian violence akin to Iraq's post-Saddam era, Syria has not seen ...

Iraq remains a fragile state deeply traumatized ... as well as facilitate compromises between competing political blocs. Depending on the nature of the contingency, a host of measures can be ...

Since the beginning of this century, triggered by the US’s illegal invasion of Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan, and aided ...

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's upcoming film follows Navy SEALs during the Iraq War in 2006 ... the visceral nature of combat illustrated in “Warfare” feels like an inevitability, considering ...

Excavations in north-eastern Iraq have unveiled neatly stacked bowls dating to more than 5,300 years ago that bear evidence of organized societies ― and whose abandonment points to eventual ...

Clay bowls discovered in Iraq could be evidence of one of the world ... to better understand and contain the virus’s spread. Nature’s pick of nine books to shape your science career in ...

Some of the chemical weapons that Iraq was said to possess included mustard ... Though Babalola acknowledged that “defamation is a dual-nature offence, and it can be a civil wrong as well ...

The answer is partly a function of his worldview and partly a function of his confidence in being able to talk his way out of anything.

And from there, he was stationed at what was then known as Fort Hood near Kileen, Texas, when the nature of his service ... his unit was sent to Iraq, deployed with the 442 nd Field Artillery ...

Saddam ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years ... Saddam Hussein’s extreme brutality, as well as his volatile nature, earned him the nickname “madman of the Middle East.” ...