Syria

Who are the Kurds and what does Trump want from them?

The world’s largest ethnic group without an independent state is concentrated in Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria

Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen

Jonathan Cook

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran

David Hearst

Israeli society is intoxicated by war and the dream of expansion. It cannot last

Abed Abou Shhadeh

Obituary: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and dominant political figure

US-Iran tensions: How Trump was dragged into war

David Hearst

Mike Huckabee lifts the veil on US backing for Israeli expansionism

Soumaya Ghannoushi

Reform to create agency like ICE and new detention centres for migrants

IS launch major assault on Hasakeh city in north-east Syria

At least 71 killed in Aleppo bombings, as Idlib province falls to opposition

Among refugee children, laughter replaces the sound of bombs

Obama’s failure on Saudi-Qatari aid to al-Qaeda affiliate

Gareth Porter

Al-Qaeda-led rebels take Idlib's last Syrian government bastion

Lost mines, oil fields further shrink Syrian government coffers

Turkey treats Syrian girl wounded in barrel bomb attack

Mideast Gas Rush

VIDEO: Could Palestinians claim more of the gas-rich Mediterranean?

Syria's al-Nusra Front seeks image makeover

Eyebrows are raised at Al-Nusra leader's dismissal of 'Khorasan' group

Chief of al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate pledges no attacks on the West

IS 'executes' 20 in Palmyra Roman theatre