Barrack, who took office as the US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria on 14 May, created a great deal ...

During Bashar al-Assad's rule, members of Syria's many religious and ethnic minority communities believed the state protected ...

US special envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said that Lebanon is facing an existential threat, warning that if it fails to act ...

In places like Syria and Lebanon, probably the best-known Ottoman official is military commander Ahmed Cemal (Jamal) Pasha, infamously nicknamed “al-Saffah” (the Butcher).

Turkey’s success in post-Assad Syria stems from its multifaceted strategy combining military strength, economic investment and ideological appeal.

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million, about half of Syria's ...

Syria is no longer Syria but rather an integral part of the emerging Ottoman Empire.A similar case was seen with Iraq, which, since the American withdrawal and until very recently, was, de facto ...

ISTANBUL—Hundreds of Turkish ground forces backed by tanks and armored vehicles entered Syria and retrieved an Ottoman tomb and 38 Turkish soldiers guarding it, fearing they were at risk from ...

A chronology of key events: 1918 October - Arab troops led by Emir Feisal, and supported by British forces, capture Damascus, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule. The Ottoman governor of Syria, Jamal ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...