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, 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 ...

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.

Emirates flights from Dubai to Damascus were suspended in 2012 and resume this month Emirates is set to reintroduce flights from to Damascus from July 16, 2025. Operations were suspended to the Syrian ...

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 ...

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.