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

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...

Most of the conflicts in the Middle East take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, but the strings are mostly pulled by ...

The hostages-for-ceasefire deal proves the U.S. — and Trump — are key to bringing Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world ...

Welcome Extra Historians to Lies, where we talk about the mistakes we made and the details we couldn't quite squeeze into the ...

A bus trip to Baghdad in the late 1950s began Dr. Marr’s path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq.

Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear. The ...

The only thing now that is certain is that a new page is being written in this chapter on Syrian and Middle Eastern history. The hope is that new foundations will be built without tyranny.

In this provocative book, both witty and profoundly serious, he provides a human-scale history of the causes and consequences of rising temperatures in the Middle East.

It coincided with the imminent inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump on 20 January, adding urgency to the ...