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 ...

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 ...