Three concentric circles of domestic, regional, and global actors compete for power and influence in Syria because of the ...

The Fertile Crescent, often referred to as “the cradle of civilization,” is the crescent-shaped region in Western Asia and North Africa that spans the modern-day countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, ...

The story of my family’s flight to Lebanon and then Mexico more than half a century ago.

In 2017, archeologists analyzed multiple satellite images from northern Syria that revealed a massive Bronze Age military network. The network was uncovered on the edge of the Fertile Crescent and ...

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and ...