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In early August 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait and declared it to be his nation's lost 19th province. Said George H. W. Bush, "This will not stand!" Translation: Get out of Kuwait, Saddam, or we will come…

Destroyed buildings next to a mosque in the city of Aleppo in Syria. Image via AdobeStock. The Syrian Crisis is one of the greatest tragedies of the twenty-first century – nearly ten years after protests…

Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway. Photo credit ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer via CIAT/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) In…

The official casualty figures in the 44-day war, which ended in November with a de facto defeat for the Armenians, are unusually high. Azerbaijan celebrates with a military parade on December 10th. The 44-day war between…

Seven members of the pro-government al-Quds Brigade, including a field commander, were killed in an ambush by ISIS in southern Deir Ezzor, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The ambush took place on…

© AFP/File | Syrian Civil Defence workers evacuate a body following a regime air strike on May 17, 2016, in the rebel-held al-Sukari neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters…

Beirut: More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters have returned to Syria after the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Britain-based Syrian war monitor said on Wednesday. A November 9 truce ended more…

DAMASCUS – More than 900 fighters Syria pro-Turkey had returned to the country after the end of the fighting in the area the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. This was revealed by the Britain-based Syrian war watchdog.The November 9 ceasefire…

Fighting in Taftanaz London - Asharq Al-Awsat More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters have returned to Syria after the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Britain-based Syrian war monitor said in a…

More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters have returned to Syria after the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Britain-based Syrian war monitor said Wednesday. A November 9 truce ended more than a month of fighting…