( The Washington Post )- What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite of what the program...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian money exchange offices can be found in most Turkish cities. These offices make more financial profits than Turkish exchange offices because they exchange more money and take higher commissions to transfer money inside or outside but their work is not without anxieties. ...

The jihadists may have been ousted from their Iraqi hometown of Mosul but many Christians like Haitham Behnam refuse to go back and trade in the stability of their new lives. "There's no security, no protection for Christians back there," said the former resident of the largest city in...

 Germany has frozen all arms deliveries to Turkey, a newspaper reported Friday, amid a row between the NATO partners that has sharply worsened since Ankara arrested several human rights activists. Berlin stepped up its travel advisory for Turkey on Thursday and warned it would review...