John Bolton said this growing network of influence is "more of a 19th-century power bloc than what we've seen in the 20th ...

One contented eighteenth-century patriot thought that “The greatest advantage a sensible Englishman derives from seeing ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Suffice to observe, privately, that she needn’t denigrate her roots and ancestry to rise in Tory politics. The bric-a-bracs ...

Christians have protested in Suqaylabiyah and Damascus after Islamist fighters set a Christmas tree on fire on Monday Read ...

The suspect, originally from Saudi Arabia, shared Islamophobic messages online and criticised German refugee policies.

A Catch-22 of politics is the fact that once you start governing and making decisions, you’re almost guaranteed to alienate ...

It will take Syria a little while to catch up with itself – the end of the regime came so quickly few were prepared.

The Syrian transitional government is launching its first crackdown on political dissidents following an “ambush” by militants loyal to the old regime. A group of combatants still loyal to deposed ...

Nestled in the Golan Heights, the Druze communities that came under Israeli control in 1967 are torn between the hope of reuniting with their loved ones on the other side of the border and anxiety ...

The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five, the state governor said Saturday ...

The region makes for the most complex geopolitics in the world, thanks to its being the battleground of three of the world's major civilizations and their modern avatars, i.e. Islamism, Zionism and ...