Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

In “The World After Gaza,” Pankaj Mishra looks for moral clarity in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

The area was the stronghold of interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group before it led the ... Britain based-war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Zabir ...

The Assad dynasty’s autocratic rule in Syria was marked by decades of fighting, bloodshed and oppressive political crackdown. All parties to the war carried out unlawful attacks, killing ...

Residents of Kobani arrive in the town centre before making their way to Tishreen Dam where they are staging a sit-in against Turkish intervention in northern Syria, 25 January 2025 (Andrew Waller ...

During the war in Gaza, some of the groups that make up the PMF launched drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. They have not launched any attacks since the fall of Assad. Mansour said ...

The sudden ousting last month of Assad after decades of dictatorship has seen the commission suddenly gain access to Syria, after striving since the early days of the civil war in 2011 to probe ... by ...

The group is thought to have upwards of 2,500 fighters in its ranks and is based primarily in Syria’s Idlib province, which, before the overthrow of the ... of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long ...

HTS’s failure to lead an inclusive political transition accommodating Syria's diverse religious, ethnic and ideological groups would risk the re-escalation of civil war, mirroring the destabilisation ...

Shortly before ... war – Al-Sharaa’s group, now known by the initials HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), has undertaken the more prosaic job of trying to govern millions of people in the northwestern ...