Trump may believe that supporting the stable, self-governing entity which Syrian Kurds, Christians, Yezidis, and Arabs have created in northeastern Syria is not U.S interest. ..…

However, without questioning the ideological merits of such a political claim, this millenarian distinction between a “Phoenician” Lebanon and an “Arab” Syria anachronistically conflates the rewritten history of the coastal city-states of the Eastern Mediterranean with the geography..…

It was against this background that the most strident, pan-Arab, anti-colonialist Ba’th party was founded during French occupation of Syria in the 1940s. . ... The Ba’th party sought the unity of Syria and Egypt. In 1958, the much drummed up goal of Arab unity was..…

TEHRAN - The Damascus Army discovered large volume of weapons and military equipment, including Israeli ammunition, in ISIL headquarters during cleansing operations in liberated areas in Eastern Badiyeh of Deir Ezzur.. ..…