From 1915-23, the Armenian nation was subjected to genocide, and the survivors in western Armenia scattered to the edges of ...

These operations have resulted in the seizure of areas including Tal Rifaat and Manbij, which had been under SDF control ...

As is clear in today’s Syria, competing claims were lodged by Arabs (Sunni and Shia), Kurds, as well as Turkomen and Armenians (at least those still alive after 1915) to the same plots of land.

A day after the fall of the SDF-controlled town of Manbij, Turkish proxies advanced today toward the town of Kobani.

Turkey's President Erdogan faces a pivotal moment in the Middle East following the fall of Syrian President Assad. Erdogan's ...

The PKK/YPG, which enjoyed freedom of movement in Syria under the Assad regime, feels the heat from the Syrian National Army, ...

As in many parts of the world, history is very much a political weapon in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is difficult to assess conflicts in Syria (and the British/Western interest) for this reason, ...

First, the Arab-Islamic world, drawing on holy scripture and lived experience, needs to recognise unequivocally that the ...

The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we ...

BRUSSELS – “It’s finally up to the people of Syria to shape their future,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed on Dec 8, hours after the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ...

The factions spill across current borders, which date from the Ottomans' post-WWI collapse (with a few later 20th-century rearrangements). For example, Turkey sees Syrian Kurds as allies of the ...