Sabbatai Zevi was the 17th-century false messiah whose life blurred the lines between Judaism and Islam as he converted to Islam for survival ...

"The Pahlavi monarchy has always been there as a strong alternative... especially in the minds of younger people." As ...

Tell me what is your nightmare and I will tell you who you are!” The quip attributed to Freud may be apocryphal, but I think it contains a grain of truth. I don’t know what your nightmare is, but I ...

No independent Arab state of “Palestine” ever existed in history. The very concept of Palestine as a standalone territorial ...

The Kurdish people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without their own country. Many are native to the region where four countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey — meet and share ...

Jan 22 - Syrian Kurdish forces have lost control of big parts of the country this month as government troops under President ...

Syrian Kurdish forces have suffered significant territorial losses to government troops under President Ahmed al-Sharaa, amidst reshaping power dynamics. Originating as a stateless ethnic group ...

Sharaa, who ‍has vowed to protect the rights of all Syrian groups, ⁠issued a decree on January 16 formally recognizing ...

Selim I didn’t inherit a stable empire—he fought his way to the throne and ruled with cold discipline, eliminating rivals and crushing rebellion before turning outward. In just eight years, he ...

Analysis - Israel's recognition of Somaliland continues to reverberate across the Red Sea's fast-changing geopolitics. How to read the emerging regional map? Certainly not through the lens of colonial ...

In a world where much of Armenian history remains locked away in fading family letters, dusty archives and complex ...

In the long and turbulent history of the modern Middle East, one of the region’s more enduring traits has been the willingness of the world’s major powers to betray the aspirations of the Kurdish ...