The collapse of empires, the coercive imposition of peace treaties, and the humiliation embedded in diplomatic language have often laid the groundwork for global transformations that follow in silence ...

Africa’s Tora Bora is deployed here to evoke a deliberate strategic and symbolic parallel between the Cal Miskad mountain ...

Clashes between armed groups in Syria have killed at least 30 people as the United States seeks to support the new administration ...

After years in a Syrian detention camp, Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq, but his joy was ...

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Baghdad: Diplomatic sources in Baghdad revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Iraqi authorities were deeply concerned about sliding into the Israeli-Iranian war, which they considered “an existential threat ...