With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...

Primrose Dunlop, who has died aged 70, was a Sydney socialite who in 1990 briefly attracted the attention of the world’s ...

The pro-West Druze of southern Syria have all but declared independence from the new jihadist rulers of the country. They need allies.The post Druze sovereignty in Syria is in America’s ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs,” explained an Alawite writer living in coastal ...

Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of forging their own path to survival among the country’s powerhouses. They are now ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918–20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

Turkey is not the largest power interested in Africa. Its economic engagement, arms sales, and foreign aid are dwarfed by one or more of the major powers.

‘This’ is the outbreak of violence in Syria that killed 745 civilians in 30 ‘massacres’ along Syria’s Alawite-majority ...

Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and ...

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

Syria's Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country's powerhouses. They are now ...