Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two Sunni powerhouses that have had a complicated and often contentious relationship over the ...

The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633. Six years later, the Dutch and North ...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria have announced an agreement with the transitional government in Damascus to evacuate ...

Sykes-Picot divided Syria and the broader region for imperial gain—not peace. That mistake cost generations. We will not make ...

Tom Barrack, US ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy to Syria, on Sunday slammed the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that ...

Nama, an authoritative account of the life and times of her half-brother, Emperor Humayun, which she authored at the request ...

Our story begins in 1915, when the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic and the United Kingdom formed the Triple Entente to partition the Ottoman ... Middle East map. Iraqi Kurds are happy in ...

Such “catalogs” could be found in various Ottoman archival repositories ... in Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria. A complete digital map could thus be drawn for the entire empire, which would visualize a) all ...

Syria is no longer Syria but rather an integral part of the emerging Ottoman Empire. A similar case was seen with Iraq, which, since the American withdrawal and until very recently, was ...

This more detailed road map for Syria's future followed a day after al-Sharaa's first speech at the "Conference for Announcing the Victory of the Syrian Revolution." After he was officially ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a country and the forces ... Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets, were important ...

They literally took a ruler and drew a line on the map. I am not joking ... in Syria’s north which is autonomously ruled by the Kurds. Carving Iraq and Syria out of the Ottoman Empire meant that the ...