Most Americans are unaware that today’s Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes ...

It's fled Syria, been devastated in Lebanon and Gaza, and attacked on its own soil. And then there's the domestic scene.

Syria, the sole Arab state that rallied behind Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988, developed close political and economic ties with revolutionary Iran. After Israel’s invasion of ...

Syria, with a population of about 22 million people, is located on the east coast of the Mediterranean sea. It borders Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west and south west ...

which established a self-styled caliphate across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria a decade ago before counter-offensives backed both by the United States and Iran. The Iraqi government has close ...