As an al-Qaida fighter in Iraq, he was detained by the American military. As the leader of a U.S.-designated terror group fighting in Syria’s civil war, he had a $10 million bounty on hi ...

On Oct. 1, 2024, Israel invaded Lebanon – the sixth time since 1978 – in order to directly confront Hezbollah. That operation led to the killing of an estimated 3,800 Lebanese people and the ...

Supreme Court Wrestles With Judges’ Power to Freeze Government Actions Nationwide The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case with potentially major implications for the power of federal judges ...

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This makes Lebanese politics highly sectarian and often unstable. In Syria, as in Iraq, a rise in Arab nationalism led to a series of military coups in the 1960s. In 1970 Hafez al-Assad seized ...