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After the eruption of the Syrian conflict in 2011, a PYD-affiliated armed group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), established control of Kurdish-majority areas in northern Syria. Under the banner ...

Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led government are complicated by the ...

"The explanation complicated the narrative that I had come to understand throughout my upbringing — the one that had kept me ...

Syria is fast becoming a second Libya-a fractured, lawless land where mercenary militias roam freely and violence is the only order of the day. The state, such as it exists, is a patchwork of ...

This interview with Hüseyin Ovayolu accompanies our online release of his photographic collection Uprooted, a black and white ...

When President Trump ordered B-2 stealth bombers to fly 37 hours from Missouri to the Middle East and back to drop bunker ...

How did two subsonic Iranian F-5s manage to intercept a blazing-fast Iraqi MiG-25 in 1986? In this video, we analyze this incredible real-world encounter from the Iran-Iraq War and fly it in DCS World ...

ET, the Senate passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep ...

Amid deadly Druze-Sunni clashes in Syria’s Sweida province, Israel positions itself as protector of the Druze community, raising questions over whether its true aim is securing a strategic foothold in ...

It had reached out even before the regime change in 2021 as Taliban is seen as the most capable force countering the dreaded ISIS-KP. Also, it’s promised not to allow anyone to use its soil to target ...

It is one of a trio of new works, alongside Gordon Corera’s “The Spy in the Archive” and Tim Weiner’s “The Mission”, which ...