Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

When Sunni rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last December, they vowed to form an inclusive Syrian government by March. Sunnis comprise around 75 percent of Syria with the remaining 25 percent made up of ...

Abu Ali, who is a metal worker as his day job, said most Druze militiamen ... Ottoman and French colonial rule to establish the modern Syrian state. During Syria’s civil war that began in ...

The new Sunni leader has no template, as the century has been riddled with colonial rule, military rivalries, and then dictatorship ...

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 ...

The Moroccan leader believes that "adopting the idea of a modern state cannot develop in an environment like Syria nor within ... growing stronger by the day but lacking formal channels ...

Celebrations erupted around Syria and ... in the modern world, I contacted Eyad and Hasan to see how they felt. “How am I feeling?” Hasan said over WhatsApp that day. “I’m flying in ...

Russia’s fleet of Tu-214Rs is very small—and shows no sign of increasing. But the bird’s advanced electronics and optical systems offer unique advantages to the Russian military.

Representing a united heritage and respect for the collective history of our world, this is how to visit all seven modern ...