With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...
Such “catalogs” could be found in various Ottoman archival repositories ... in Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria. A complete digital map could thus be drawn for the entire empire, which would visualize a) all ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...
Lebanon is an Arab country of 5.5 million in Southwest Asia bordering occupied Palestine. This tiny country has had its ...
The Gaza Strip is a remnant of a much larger Gaza district in the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate Palestine ... in untrammelled possession of a much larger Palestine today. The UN map of the Plan ...
The further back in time we go, the more defunct states we find: the Third Reich, the Ottoman Empire, Prussia ... and the names of those prior countries were removed from the map. In some cases, the ...
Israel lies on the map like a flint dagger. Deliberately driven into the heart ... Having supported terrorist groups in the drive to overthrow the Syrian government, Israel is now using the HTS ...
Yet Alawites are not a particularly prosperous group. France, which got Syria in the carve-up of the Ottoman empire after the First World War, deliberately recruited Alawites for its new colonial ...