A fresh wave of deadly sectarian violence has rocked Syria, highlighting the country's fragile security landscape.

The Druze religious sect is an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. About half of the roughly one million Druze ...

The state still considers them terrorists. They are Kurdish children. The state must act immediately and extend its hand for ...

In the 1990s when the Turkish government fought a pitiless war against the PKK, banned Kurdish language, criminalized ...

A U.S. envoy said on Wednesday that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine is one of the most documented in human history. And yet, often the experience of soldiers on the ...

U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran brought talk of "regime change." But ordinary Iranians fear getting caught in the crossfire.

News reporting on Iran encourages a view of the regime as homogeneous, ideological and separate from the people. But many Iranians have ambivalent views on the state.

History is being written as we speak. Since Syrian rebels entered Damascus unopposed in December 2024, toppling President ...