US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein build up his arsenal of ... he had a secret meeting with the Iraqi dictator and arranged enormous military assistance for his war with ...

Kurdish communities share concerns about potential opposition to Kurdish rights from the Islamist rebels who led regime's ...

Several high-level visits come as Syrian rebel groups try to establish a new government following the collapse of the Bashar ...

The Syrian rebel group which deposed Bashar al-Assad has promised amnesty to regime soldiers and opened the borders for ...

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The Assad regime is gone, but how much of the old regime's personnel should the country's new rulers keep around?

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In abandoning Israel at the UN and in the International Criminal Court, the Albanese government has abandoned a great Labor tradition of supporting the always-embattled state’s right to exist.

In my first visit to Syria, which was being torn apart by the Arab Spring, the most startling experience outside the Umayyad ...

Uncertainty Looms for Syrian Christians as Assad Regime Falls** In a dramatic shift in the Middle Eastern landscape, the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime has stirred a wave of a ...

When westerners see 'enemy' governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth ...

A fractured Syria could create space for extremist factions and terror groups like Islamic State to resurge, further ...