Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Israel – with support from the UK and France – invaded Egypt with the objective of reopening the Straits of Tiran and the ...

Egypt, a country long beset by structural and policy challenges that have resulted in low growth, high inflation, a misaligned exchange rate, ...

The Middle East underwent immense changes in the 1950s due to political instability and ideological shifts. This period, ...

In September 1955 he defied the West by contracting arms deals with Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. In 1956 he nationalised the Suez Canal and secured Britain’s evacuation of the Canal zone.

The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal ...

Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie has told shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk there are signs of stability returning to ...

The two incidents are set apart by a century and more but both happened in Calcutta. The second is known from lived ...

Mass execution of population (between 2,500 and 5,000) of Cesena, Italy, by Breton troops of Giovanni Acuto under the ...

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