Most of the conflicts in the Middle East take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, but the strings are mostly pulled by ...

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 ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged Assad’s rule. Tens of thousands of people were killed by the government’s ...