Yet whatever its origins, unless checked swiftly and decisively, it threatens to dismantle what remains of Syria’s social cohesion and expose the transitional leadership as incapable of governing a ...

A US-led coalition captured a senior member of the Islamic State group in northwest Syria on Wednesday, state media and a war monitor reported ...

Egypt’s mediaeval Mameluke rulers are the subject of this year’s summer exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.