Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s second biggest city.

During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...

After the Council many followers of Nestorius were expelled from the Byzantine Empire and were sent into Persia ... Syria, and most of the Middle East were established after World War I). Eventually, ...

Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire population of the world three thousand years ago was only about 50 million ...

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

Lachish Reliefs (made around 700 BC). Stone panel, found in northern Iraq. Three thousand years ago, the world was, as usual, at war. On the face of it this might seem surprising, as the entire ...

They are descendants of a powerful Middle Eastern empire and early followers of Christianity ... the United States identify their ancestry as Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac, according to U.S. Census ...