How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital.. The station was an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...

While Syrian authorities initially blamed the attack on ISIS, a group calling itself “Saraya Ansar al-Sunna” quickly claimed ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more ...

The UAE is therefore trying to prevent Assad from becoming a vassal of the Iranians—at a time when Damascus cannot expect Moscow's full support any longer because of the Ukrainian bog-down.

Damascus, SANA – From one of the Damascene squares, an Arabian horse which had always carried the horsemen defending Damascus to quench its thirst from Fijah water, overlooking the neighborhoods ...

An old locomotive sits outside the Hejaz railway station in old Damascus on 23 February 2024 (AFP ... Named after the Hejaz region in the western Arabian Peninsula, home to Islam’s two ...

Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to form al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. The announcement came in its latest release of the online journal ...

The Arabian Peninsula is part of a tectonic plate that is making its way north into the Eurasian Plate, and the entire nation of Turkey is getting squeezed aside. Sponsor Message.

Damascus: Damascus airport, closed since rebel forces overran the Syrian capital at the weekend, is to reopen "in the next few days", its director Anis Fallouh told AFP on Wednesday.