The New Orleans attack was just one in a string of recent Islamist inspired acts of terror. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the factors that ...

Nearby, Bashar Assad’s house was emptied by looters, who left the water taps running to flood it. At a villa belonging to ...

QARDAHA, Syria — On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built ... dynasty's hometown in the mountains overlooking the coastal city of Latakia. Nearby, Bashar Assad’s house was emptied by ...

Following its recent display at the Nanjing City Wall Museum ... "ALIPH has supported projects in Raqqa since 2019, and in northwestern Syria since the 2023 earthquake. We stand ready to support ...

On the walls of the palatial ... was not what the rest of the Syrian society thought,” said Deeb Dayoub, an Alawite sheikh. “Everyone thought Qardaha was a city built on a marble rock and ...

Members of the Kurdish internal security forces (Asayish) patrol a street in the Kurdish-controlled city ... of eastern Syria, cities like Hasakeh, and the former ISIS capital of Raqqa.

Syrian fighters rest in the ancient city of ... That night the family fled, first for Raqqa, the city IS had made its capital and the only route out of Palmyra, and months later, towards the ...

Such horrors, he says, were far from unusual in the two years that IS ran the city as an outpost of its self-declared caliphate that extended through the Syrian ... first for Raqqa, the city ...