The tragedy of the modern Middle East is that the Ottoman Empire, while it lasted, solved a problem that would bedevil the entire 20th century into the 21st. Former president Bashar al-Assad said ...
The European Council has been following the situation in the Middle East very closely since Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel of 7 October 2023. The European Council is deeply alarmed by the ...
THE West has long had strong economic ties with the Middle East, not least given the latter’s huge endowments of the world’s oil reserves. However, Middle Eastern nations are increasingly looking East ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The remains of over thirty corpses were uncovered in the village of Izraa. The village is in the southern ...
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a new front for geopolitical competition in the Middle East. Now ... would have likely been part of modern-day Turkey.
The fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad overturned the most profitable drug-smuggling network in the Middle East, exposing the former regime’s role in manufacturing and trafficking pills that ...
The delegation was led by Middle East envoy Tobias Tunkel and also included a representative of the German Development Ministry. The meetings with Germany's delegation came after UK diplomats held ...
killing an estimated 10,000-25,000 people in what some pundits have labeled “the single deadliest act by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East.” The massacre ...