The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

Mehdi al-Shayesh thought he would quickly resettle in his central Syrian hometown after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, but like ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...