The complex history of the Kurdish people, from nomadic tribes to modern-day struggles for autonomy and recognition.

Abu Ali, who is a metal worker as his day job, said most Druze militiamen would merge ... revolts against Ottoman and French ...

The elder Assad had crushed Sunni militants, killing at least 10,000 in the city of Hama in 1982 in the bloodiest single incident in modern ... from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day war.

and modern Syria is secured. Shoufi also gave two important clues regarding the new council: that it was formed in coordination with the local spiritual leadership, led by the revered Sheikh ...

It was in an area known as the Fertile Crescent, which was fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now part of modern-day Syria and Iraq. The domestication of chickpeas coincided with ...

Without pause, Israeli jets then destroyed Syria’s navy and its heavy weaponry in a series of devastating air strikes, which continue to this day ... lack any kit of a modern army.

She studied journalism at the Modern Sciences and Arts University ... Israel seized control of the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the region in 1981.

Independence was won in 1946 and modern day Syria, unified into one territorial unit, joined the world stage. However, the ...