This last theme became particularly relevant as we traveled to Turkey for a week. I’ll admit to having some trepidation prior to visiting. First, Turkey shares a southern border with Syria and the complexity of
A Byzantine mosaic map from the 6th century ce shows Rafah near the “border of Egypt and Palestine” before it came under Arab Muslim rule decades later. In the late 10th century, at a time when the southern Levant was again a battlefield between forces from Egypt and Syria, the ...
seized the opportunity to replace Gamelin and for that purpose summoned Gen.Maxime Weygandfrom Syria. Weygand did not arrive until May 19, and thus for three critical days the Supreme Command was without direction. Britannica Quiz Pop Quiz: 17 Things to Know About World War II...
Syria Rojava Ar-Raqqah GovernorateTel AbyadTell Abyad is a town in northern Syria. It is the administrative center of the Tell Abyad District within the Raqqa Governorate. Located along the Balikh River, it constitutes a divided city with the bordering city of Akçakale in Turkey....
He landed in Beirut at 10 a.m. and flew to Istanbul the same day, reaching the southern town of Izmir by night fall. September 26 waiting in turkey There was a storm in Izmir and the seas were choppy, making the journey to Greece very dangerous. ...
kingdom, he began gradually to extend his domain eastward to theIndus Riverand westward toSyriaandAnatolia, where he decisively defeated Antigonus at Ipsus in 301. In 281 he annexed the Thracian Chersonesus. That same year, he was assassinated byPtolemy Ceraunus, the disgruntled son of Ptolemy...
“axis of resistance” in the region that includedHezbollahinLebanon, Pres.Bashar al-AssadinSyria, andHouthirebels inYemen. Hamas, whose relationship with Iran had beentumultuousin the 2010s, had grown closer to Iran after 2017 and received significant Iranian support to build up its military ...