As rebels in Syria make new advances against government ... aid from several nations both within and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran. Russia in particular has been a strong ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

His focus is on East Asian politics ... governance structure of the emerging post-Assad Syria," Dr. Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow in Middle East Security at the Royal United Services ...

though some sort of rapprochement may be possible with Syria’s Kurdish and Druze minorities. “But I think they are hopeful of a Middle East where there will be less regimes hostile to Israel ...

Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became ... contributing to the Middle East’s enduring instability. Syria was placed under French rule in 1922. Anti-colonial feeling strengthened ...

They hit at least two more bases and other military targets in Syria. Syria was in danger ... Sign up to the Middle East Dispatch, a weekly newsletter that keeps you in the loop on a fascinating ...

As rebels in Syria make new advances against government ... Other nations in the Middle East dealing with political instability do not have a unified stance on the issue, while others are disputed ...