In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

countries across the Middle East eventually normalised relations with him and sent ambassadors to Damascus. In May 2023, the Arab League voted to restore Syria’s membership. The peace dividends ...

Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... religious extremism and authoritarian rule. Syria, today’s shiny coin for international attention, is another mock nation imagined ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...