The map below shows the location of Damascus and Kabul. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

“What’s interesting,” he says, “is that Kabul is following a trajectory, almost a pathology, of cities in modern conflict, similar to Baghdad and to a lesser extent Damascus. Mogadishu is ...

The collapse of Alawite Basher al-Assad regime and rise of Islamist rebels once affiliated to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria has reopened the chapter of religious radicalization witnessed ...

A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

WASHINGTON -- A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians during the chaotic withdrawal from ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians during the chaotic withdrawal from ...