(By Abdul Aziz Al Tammo; Translation by Dani Murad) The Kurds in Syria are indigenous people who inhabited their historical land, and the west part of their land (Kurdistan) was combined with the modern Syrian state in 1920 in accordance with The...
(Reuters) - Syria is descending into a Somalia-style failed state run by warlords which poses a grave threat to the future of the Middle East, former peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said. Brahimi, who stepped down a week ago after the failure of peace talks he mediated in...
(Reuters) - Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as president of Egypt on Sunday in a ceremony with low-key attendance by Western allies concerned by a crackdown on dissent since he ousted Islamist leader Mohamed Mursi last year. Last month's election, which...
The shadowy leader of thousands of Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq, appears to be surpassing al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as the world’s most influential jihadist. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — known for its ruthless tactics and...
