In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Djibouti has remained neutral on the war, as one of the Middle Eastern countries furthest from the conflict. Israel, which has a northern border with Syria, also remains neutral. While Lebanon's ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... The Kurds, an indigenous people who were promised their own country, were betrayed by the European powers. Today, they are ...