Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated and ...

No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Most Kurds – some 25 million – ...

But did you know that, in 2007, a group of Marines also ran the Houston Marathon halfway across the world in Fallujah, Iraq ... it as “fancy words for maps”), had done some distance ...

In a region known for protracted conflicts having an army that can sustain prolonged conflict is crucial. The Middle East is ...

World’s most dangerous countries to visit in 2025 - No country saw their security risk decrease in the past 12 months, says ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

Millions of people from the poor world are trying to cross seas, forests, valleys and rivers, in search of safety, work and ...

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

Chaos in Syria deepens as a newly formed Iraqi militia vows to defend the Alawites from alleged Hayat Tahrir al Sham ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

It’s going from dotted to solid lines on the map. That’s how it should be ... significant portions of the population are uneasy about American symbols and institutions. I’ve never understood ...

Countries that malign migrants are in quite serious need of new people. Nations in the wealthy world face a top-heavy future- ...