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

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... None of this is optimal, but this is the hand the region has been dealt. The Middle East has been such a basket case for so long ...

Ever since its discovery this region has become a powerful point on the geopolitical map of the world owing ... which regional instabilities in the Middle East create an environment for ...